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Currently, Singapore Airlines flies a few different routes that feature their new business class ( and uber First Class Suites). Sydney to Singapore, Singapore to London, and Singapore to Hong Kong. I’m in the prelim stages of planning another mega trip for my family next year and was thinking about some cool flights to take with my folks. Last year we went around the world in First class for my mom’s bday. Both my parents LOVED Cathay First, Singapore Suites, Singapore in general, and the spiritual richness of Bali. I’m thinking I’ll plan something to hopefully pick off some of those elements again. That’s when I stumbled across some interesting, albeit short rides, in Singapore’s A380 fitted with Double Bedded Business Class. What’s even better, is I could lock business class, and waitlist for their new SUITES…#goals.
Check it: Singapore’s New Double Bed Business Class from Hong Kong to Singapore. A 4 hour flight for just 27.5k miles.
It’s not a long flight, but seeing as though Singapore Airlines is a transfer partner of Chase, Citi, Amex, and SPG – the miles are fairly easy to shore up. At that price…it’s a no brainer for us to fly in comfort and also try out a new product.
I’ll make sure to waitlist in the First Class cabin prior to booking into business. Only 10k more and enjoy one of these bad boys…
If you aren’t aware of Singapore’s generous waitlist policy: as long as you have the miles in your account you can waitlist as many flights as you like. Once you’ve done your waitlisting, you can then use those miles to book another flight. So I’ll be able to waitlist tickets in First Class, and then go ahead and hedge our flight with a great business class product.
Ideally, I’d like to get my folks in First both ways, but I’d prefer to fly one way in business and the other in first just to review and snap my own cabin photos. We’ll see how it all shapes up 🙂
* All cabin photos are courtesy of Singapore Airlines
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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