As Qantas grounds 90% of its international flights over the next two months, frequent flyers will be relieved to hear that Qantas will be extending all current elite members’ status for another year.
As if Scoot has not enough problems with the evolving travel bans, its next line of defence – the call centre – will be hung up from today (17 Mar 2020). Scoot announced early this morning that their call centre in the Philippines will be closed from 17 March 2020 due to a national lockdown.
Qantas slashes its seat capacity out of Changi Airport by more than 50%; will operate only 28 flights per week from May from Singapore, down from 49 flights per week.
No change fees for all commercial or award tickets issued between 6 and 31 Mar 2020 for all destinations Singapore Airlines has over the weekend announced that it will waive change fees for all Singapore Airlines and SilkAir tickets issued between 6 and 31 Mar 2020. The change fee waiver is applied across both commercial and award booking, and for all ticket routing worldwide. This is the full announcement from Singapore Airlines: Singapore Airlines will waive change fees for all SIA and SilkAir tickets issued between 6 March 2020 and 31 March 2020. This new policy will give customers the flexibility to change their travel plans without incurring additional change fees, given the concerns over the growing global scale of the Covid-19 outbreak. Global travel waiver policy We will waive change fees for customers with SIA or SilkAir tickets issued on 6 March 2020 through 31 March for travel to and from all destinations. The new travel date must commence before 31 March 2021. Top-up fees may still apply for fare differences in the new itinerary. For cancellations, refunds …
Limited time promotion runs until 8 March. Standard Chartered bank is offering a 100% conversion bonus for its cardmembers for transferring points into Emirates Skywards miles from now until 8 March 2020. While the promotion is targeted at the X Infinite Visa cardholders, as long as you have a Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) credit card that allows you to earn points, you are eligible for the promotion. Emirates Skywards programme Emirates Skywards miles aren’t usually good value due to the number of miles required for redemptions and the fuel surcharges that come with it. Moreover, Emirates doesn’t belong to any alliances, so your options are pretty much limited. However, with this offer, the awards become a lot more sensible. you can make a number of redemption options that are comparable to what you might normally spend on Singapore Airlines’ Krisflyer. If you have been converting your SCB 360 Rewards points to Krisflyer all these while, your effective mpd of 1.2 for Krisflyer is now worth 1.7 mpd if you are converting them to Emirates Skywards. …
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