HighFlyer points can be converted into KrisFlyer miles at a 2:1 ratio right now but starting from 13 July 2021, the value of these HighFlyer points will be doubled (so please hold off any conversions until then). We have redeemed KrisFlyer miles on SilkAir REP-SIN before for this reason. According to Singapore Airlines’ Alaska Airlines award chart (PDF link), you can book a one-way economy class flight from the U.S. West Coast to Hawaii for just 12,000 Krisflyer miles. We just can’t hold our hand on our heart and say it’s fully defensible anymore, especially if you’re buying miles as many of our readers are, whether that be through credit card sign-up bonuses, conversion of points from the likes of Chope and Grab Rewards, or paying a credit card fee to make an overseas transaction or pay a local bill purely to earn miles in the process. Star Alliance Flights to the Middle East or North Africa. The result was, we ac… * Note: SIA is already the cheapest full fare carrier on this route in Premium Economy Class, * Note: SIA is already the cheapest full fare carrier on this route in Business Class. Note that in Part 1 of this article, where we looked at the value of miles you can expect to achieve, comparison for Economy Class fares was all based on the cheapest non-refundable tickets. Let’s say they got a bit greedy though and doubled that next time round – a 20% devaluation. Value KrisFlyer miles are one of the valuable airline currencies in the world. Of course your own limit for buying miles may never have been 2 cents each (we always shied away from paying that ‘upper limit’ unless we had a compelling reason). * Note: KA fare is in First Class SIN-ICN but Business Class ICN-PEK, which is a slightly unfair comparison, however since Cathay Pacific stopped offering First Class from Singapore there would be no other way to compare. If you want an even poorer rate for your miles, just head to the KrisShop, where you can buy a wide range of price-inflated items and instead of using cash, redeem your KrisFlyer miles for 0.8 cents each. That’s not only because the cost of the ticket is very high, but also that there are very few cheap First Class alternatives with other carriers on most routes. For every 50,000 miles converted into your KrisFlyer account until October 15, KrisFlyer Elite members will pocket 4,000 Elite miles, while PPS Club members will get $2,000 in PPS Value. Our personal ceiling for ‘buying’ KrisFlyer miles is now 1.9 cents per mile, because we know we can achieve a higher return than that, above 2.4 cents on average. SIA makes it easier for KrisFlyer members to utilise their miles through the "Pay with KrisFlyer miles" option which should appear whenever you are signed in and on SIA's payment page when making a flight booking. Conservatively speaking for most of the average income earners and irregular flyers, it will be fair to assume a value of around 1.24 cents for a KrisFlyer mile as it is the average implied value of a mile if one were to redeem SIA Economy Class flights to all available destinations. Full fare (cash) tickets on Singapore Airlines also earn KrisFlyer miles, but award redemptions do not (with the exception of upgrades using miles, but that’s a whole different topic). But what if a ‘Saver’ redemption is not available in either direction, just an ‘Advantage’ redemption? Well yes, but what we’re looking for here as we said before is more of an upper limit to buy. There’s almost no excuse for this, please never do it. Examining our Business Class redemptions in isolation, it looks like this: So the value of a mile to us, assuming we made all these redemptions at current rates, is 2.42 cents right? For one thing it made the maths easy! This will result in an implied average valuation of 1.24 cents per mile (average Economy Class mile valuation) instead of 3.17 cents per mile (Business Class mile valuation) as seen from our table earlier. To cut the price of a one-way business class ticket from Singapore to Dubai by $515.95, for example, would cost you 50,568 KrisFlyer miles. If the full amount is paid with KrisFlyer miles, no KrisFlyer miles, Elite miles and PPS Value will be earned. What about upgrading with miles (eg buying a PE and upgrade to Business) instead of getting a full Business redemption ticket as upgrade can be gotten easily on the spot while buying a full redemption ticket has to be waitlisted most of the time. This is one of the cheapest ways to use miles to fly to Hawaii, and is an option to consider if you live in an Alaska hub city. The Economy Value has dropped in the latest round not because of an increased miles cost (there wasn’t one), but because taxes on those routes have in fact increased. Even then, you might not get much time to enjoy your short flight (at most 3 hours flight time for Zone 2 and 3 destinations). 1 PPS Value for every 10 KrisFlyer miles earned or converted 1 Elite mile for every 5 KrisFlyer miles earned or converted There’s no limit to the status miles you can earn this way. However, using your miles for travel on Star Alliance airlines and other partners such as Virgin Australia and Virgin Atlantic can also provide outsized value. Infrequent flyers (assuming negligible miles accumulated from flying) and/or low spenders (see How Much to Spend on Credit Cards for Free Flights) will find it extremely difficult to accumulate enough miles for Business Class redemptions (Minimum of 38,000 miles for Zone 2 redemption). Obviously, he or she would be able to go on more overseas trips using miles redemptions if he or she were to redeem Economy Class tickets (implied average valuation of 1.24 cents per mile) as compared to Business Class tickets (3.17 cents per mile). The value in First Class is in the experience, rather than the cost saving. While this offers great flexibility, since an award redemption does not have to be available, it doesn’t represent good value, and you should probably never do it. Generally you will get nothing back if you cancel these, or your plans change, unlike the award redemption, which is flexible. Here are the approximate value-per-mile rates for the different classes of travel: Economy/Premium Economy: 1-2 cents per mile Business Class: 4-6 cents per mile Suites/First Class: 6-9 cents per mile How Are You Spending If you booked a cheaper full fare ticket with another Star Alliance airline, you could be earning some KrisFlyer miles for the trip, but that’s getting a bit complicated! If you have plans to spend $1,000 within 3 months, AMEX will double that bonus to 10,000. How Much is 1000 KrisFlyer Miles Worth? A round-trip ticket on Singapore Airlines booked six months from now in Premium Economy would set you back S$2,437.40. Unless you’re making a small top up to achieve a specific redemption, you must build in a comfortable buffer between the cost of buying miles and the value you can achieve from them. That means assessing them against the best value, but still realistic full fare cash booking. To keep things simple and fair, we are comparing KrisFlyer miles against the cash value of SQ tickets. The cost is 56,000 miles + S$154.20. We do this regularly, taking advantage of the typically good availability just under a year in advance to lock in a business or suites redemption. 2 cents was always a ‘nice’ valuation for a KrisFlyer mile. There is no ‘single’ valuation for a KrisFlyer mile. None of these are cheap. Again remember that this all assumes Singapore Airlines is your only airline choice, and you will fly with them regardless, which makes you a very fussy customer – most people will seek a cheaper fare with another airline if they cannot redeem with SIA, and this reduces the ‘value’ of the miles. Granted, we picked an obvious ‘waste of miles’ example there. Realistically, you must compare the miles used against the Flexi fare when assessing the value, meaning that your miles in this case achieved 2.65 cents each. Using the example of a Singapore return Economy flight to London above, one has to take the base fare (exclusive of airport/government taxes) of $930 and divide it by 76,000 miles which is the number of miles required to redeem the same flight. If the award had not been available, and your true alternative would have been to pay a cash fare in Business Class on the same Singapore Airlines flights, then one has to also account for the miles you would earn from booking the full fare cash ticket, when calculating the value of the miles on this trip. In Australia Point Hacks goes with a maximum earn threshold (an upper limit to buy) of 1.7 Australian cents for KrisFlyer miles (1.6 Singapore cents), with a target redemption rate of 1.9 Australian cents (1.8 Singapore cents). There is at least one exception out there on the network though, brought about by an ‘artificial’ lack of competition (a sort of ‘legal cartel’). We’ve included two flights: a long-haul flight to London which takes approximately 14 hours, and a mid-haul flight to Tokyo, which is a much less punishing 7 hours. We assessed the value of each one on the basis of four different preference / travel behaviour assumptions to determine the cents per mile valuation of the redemption. They will probably be able to get the best value for their miles (3.17 cents per mile for Business Class and 5.48 cents per mile for First Class) as compared to others. Other ways to waste KrisFlyer miles include buying something from KrisShop at 0.80 cents per mile, converting KrisFlyer miles to Tap for More points for your Passion Card at 0.73 cents per mile or converting to KrisPay mile at 0.67 cents or Esso Smiles Points at 0.67 cents We strongly discourage utilising the foolish methods to waste your hard-earned miles as it destroys value and defeats the purpose of accumulating miles. It was probably never exactly right, as we’ve said there’s no ‘correct’ valuation – you can achieve much worse and much better than almost any sensibly quoted figure. Take the example of a Singapore to Dubai flight in Business Class. As you’ll now have to fork out 240,000 miles for the trip, the value per mile becomes 2.34 cents for regular KF members, and 2.31 cents for KF Elite Silver and above status members. Our calculations show that 1,000 KrisFlyer miles can have a wide range of valuations from $12.40 to $54.80. We usually redeem in Business Class (22 out of the 32 trips), occasionally in First / Suites (7 trips, though many of those are taken or booked recently) and rarely in Economy Class (3 trips). You would have to book an ‘Economy Flexi’ ticket, at S$1,636.70, which allows for cancellation before the first flight departs for a fee of US$100 (about S$136). That’s very conservative in our view, but again it’s targeted at an Australian audience not a Singapore-based member. What is the Value of a KrisFlyer Mile for Different Flight Destinations and Flight Classes? We’re going to repeat our 2017 analysis in this article using the latest KrisFlyer redemption rates, breaking it down under the following sections: Just 1 cent (or, more accurately, 1.02 cents). Bottom line here is that whenever you convert your KrisFlyer miles to any form of cash (or pseudo cash) it’s almost always at a terrible rate. Think of this as our ‘upper limit to buy’. Just to recap on the A-D travel assumption meanings: The table speaks for itself – for A and B type travellers, if you stick to premium cabins for your short and medium-haul redemptions, but split your redemptions equally between Economy Class and say Business Class for long-haul trips throughout the year, you will achieve an average of over 2.4 cents per mile. Also, while derisory in value, the discount for part payment with KrisFlyer miles is helpful in one sense. If you’re in this situation do check out the methods that might work for you, before resigning yourself to something like KrisPay. In fact, most banks in Singapore only allow cardholders to redeem their rewards points for only either SIA's KrisFlyer miles or Cathay Pacific's Asia miles. As always, and as we will show in this article, you can get much less value for your miles (even ‘negative value’, as we’ve often demonstrated), but used properly you can usually get much more value than 1.9 cents each from them. Again it’s for a US audience, and in this case we think that’s on the conservative side if you’re locally based and using miles sensibly (feel free to use it though!). Firstly, don’t get all dismayed and rush to cash out all your miles and abandon the scheme just yet! What is the Value of a KrisFlyer Mile for Different Classes of Flights? Currently, KrisFlyer members can convert a minimum of 20,000 miles into Shangri-La Golden Circle points at a 12:1 ratio (a maximum of 180,000 miles can be converted per calendar year). The best indirect option is with Etihad at S$11,400. If you generally use your miles to redeem into Business Class, you should not lose out buying at 2 cents per mile or less. What it does show though is that options are getting much tighter if you want to achieve 2 cents per mile for your redemptions. Buying at a ‘known discount’ on their value (again based on our personal valuation, yours will depend how you use them) also protects against a future devaluation of the scheme. Their valuations are much higher due to the fact that it is based on their redemption preferences which often include Business or even First Class flight redemptions as well as taking advantage of redemption deals such as KrisFlyer Spontaneous Escapes. Promotional deals for air fares and mileage redemption might vary from time to time which might result in different value for a KrisFlyer mile with the same calculation method. That’s because it’s what they’ll give you off any full fare ticket when you choose to part-pay with miles. The ‘value’ of those is slightly false as we already mentioned earlier in Part 2. Between us, we’ve redeemed almost 1.7 million KrisFlyer miles in the last three years or so. The minimum spend was reduced to S$20 in early 2020, but it seems we’ve come full circle as effective 16 May 2021 , the minimum spend is returning to S$35 once … In theory, the biggest value for KrisFlyer miles from London comes from the Virgin Atlantic partner award chart. * Note: SIA is already only carrier operating First Class on this route. As we alluded to earlier, buying at anything less than 1 cent per mile is a no-brainer – you basically can’t lose out. If you redeem only in Economy Class, you’ll probably achieve, If you mix your redemptions between Economy and Business Class, you should achieve. One of the most popular offers from American Express is that cardholders can purchase reward points in increments of 1,000. The best way and some say the only sensible way to utilise credit cards rewards points is to redeem them for air miles. Singapore Airlines price their Premium Economy redemptions just below Business Class, which is a farce, not only when you look at the difference in product and service, but also when you see the difference in price. Our calculations show that 1,000 KrisFlyer miles can have a wide range of valuations from $12.40 to $54.80. With the widespread popularity of online shopping websites such as Lazada, Qoo10 or Shopee which promise lower prices... What is the current average fixed deposit rates in Singapore? Elite miles are awarded based on the distance flown with Singapore Airlines or any Star Alliance airline, and multiplied or discounted based on the On that basis our valuation of a mile is also very personal, largely based on the ways we use KrisFlyer miles as you’ve seen from the previous section. Granted it does mean doing some advance planning, and it requires a healthy miles balance. With Singapore Airlines (SIA) being our only national flagship carrier, it is natural for Singaporeans to trade their hard earned rewards points for KrisFlyer miles. SilkAir flights are excluded from the calculation due to the difference in quality of service and product rendered. In the above example KrisShop are selling a MacBook Pro, delivered to your door, but they are giving you just 0.8 cents per mile versus the retail price of the device (S$2,045). What rate you should set as your ceiling when ‘buying’ KrisFlyer miles depends on how you use them, i.e. If the Saver award is available both ways, your 184,000 miles are saving you S$6,000 on the usual cash fare, 3.26 cents per mile, which sounds pretty good. Our valuation of 1.24 cents is likely to be higher in real life since it is normally quite difficult to get the cheapest promotional price for your chosen date and time to fly. They will be able to choose between redeeming Economy or Business Class tickets with the accumulated miles for their choice destinations (Preferably for Zone 4 and above). 1 PPS Value for every 10 KrisFlyer miles earned or converted 1 Elite mile for every 5 KrisFlyer miles earned or converted Now with the numbers in front of you, you can start to develop a plan on how you could earn 25,000 elite status miles to receive KrisFlyer Silver status or 50,000 miles to receive Gold. Using the option for SIA or SilkAir flights will result in a fixed implied value of 1.02 cents per mile (($522.2-$82.2) / 43,120 = $0.0102 in above example) while using the option for Scoot flight will result in a fixed implied value of 0.95 cent per mile. ), spas and strip wax joints. By now, it should be quite apparent that the value of a KrisFlyer mile is personal and different people have different valuations for it because of the way the type of flight they redeem. Discover the best way to maximise value per point, and how to use the Redemption Using the same calculation method and conditions listed above, we have gone on to calculate the value of a mile if one were to redeem a Saver Award return ticket to London for various flight classes. 8,322 KrisFlyer Miles (125% * 6,658) So that’s Elite Miles, PPS Value and KrisFlyer Miles explained! You are only willing to book a ‘Saver’ category redemption, otherwise you pay full fare. We personally value KrisFlyer miles, conservatively. On the plus side, earning through KrisPay came about in March this year, and that is a useful way of topping up your miles at a limited merchant list. Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, in July 2018 Singapore Airlines brought us KrisPay. Between us, we’ve redeemed almost 1.7 million KrisFlyer miles in the last three years or so. Let’s also compare to the same analysis we did in November 2017. Business would be $5,942.40, a massive jump in cost of 144% (more than double). New: Convert KrisFlyer Miles into STAR$ and Vice Versa – Don’t Listen to Mile Blogs Saying This is Poor Value 1 month ago Seth Freshly announced on 5th April 2021, KrisFlyer members can now convert their KrisFlyer miles to CapitaStar STAR$ , and vice versa. It’s a decent sample and we have a spread sheet containing all our awards, with a very fair and conservative methodology to assess the true value of each flight we took. If a higher proportion of your redemptions are in Economy Class than ours, by all means it’s a safe benchmark. We’ve presented the assumed value here anyway, but take it with a pinch of salt. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that you’re getting a much better deal redeeming in Business than in Premium Economy on this route. For a ballpark calculation it isn’t far wrong. We can usually secure the redemptions we need, as we either book a long way in advance or travel during off-peak periods, but like anyone we cannot guarantee a redemption will be available, and sometimes we have to fall back on a cash ticket. Of course there will be very few opportunities for you to buy miles through the year at or below your threshold level in that case, but at least you’ll be comfortable whenever you do. Krisflyer Elite Silver is Singapore’s entry-level elite status tier. If you tend to book one-way redemptions, you will also achieve a higher value than shown because one-way tickets, especially with full-service airlines, tend to cost much more than 50% of a round-trip ticket cost, while the KrisFlyer miles needed are exactly half. Note that $930 is the cheapest promotional base fare (Economy Lite) listed under Singapore Airlines flight deals while 76,000 miles is the required number of miles for a Saver Award redemption. Singapore Airlines transfers are good value Whilst we don’t cover KrisFlyer much on Head for Points, it does have some sweet spots. What is the Best Way to Use Credit Card Points? If you want to offset the cash cost of this flight using some of your KrisFlyer miles, it’s possible as shown. Short answer: it depends. While there are low-cost options on these routes (Jetstar), they too know they can charge high fares during these periods. While it sounds a wild range, in some sense each can be defended (well 7.0 is looking a bit rich now to be honest, but you know what we mean). Frequent flyers and/or high spenders can afford to redeem Business or First Class tickets because they fly and/or spend enough to accumulate loads of miles to fly luxuriously. Well-known miles chasers also have different valuations for a KrisFlyer mile although they are somewhat similar among themselves but much higher than our valuation. It therefore makes little sense to buy miles at your average redemption rate. Please fill in your email or login to your Facebook/Gmail to like this page. Like going from the U.S. to Europe, … Even if he or she were to make good use of Mileage Credit Cards with Signup Promotions and take full advantage of the 3 years validity of KrisFlyer miles to accumulate miles using the Best Mileage Credit Cards, it is likely that he or she will use the miles for a medium or long haul flight (Zone 4 and above) and not for a short haul Business Class flight (Zone 2 and 3) for a better holiday trip. Unlike KrisFlyer Miles, elite miles and PPS value can only be earned by flying. The result was, we achieved an average value of 3.18 cents per mile. We examined four short to medium-haul trips (Bali, Hong Kong, Da Nang and Beijing) and also four of long-haul trips (Auckland, Zurich, New York and Paris) all originating in Singapore and booked as round-trip saver awards. your own personal valuation. Of course, you would only go down the part-pay with miles route if a redemption was not available, and you needed to travel. That’s actually slightly higher than we quoted in November 2017, but has been skewed by the unusually high number of First / Suites Class redemptions we have made since then. It therefore makes little sense to buy miles at your average redemption rate. It means if you can ‘buy’ KF miles for less than 1.02 cents each (call it 1 cent or less), you basically cannot lose out (provided you would book and fly with Singapore Airlines in any class, which most of our readers would). If you hold KrisFlyer Elite or PPS Club status, the redemption gets a bit worse as you are forfeiting even more miles – you would earn 19,960 miles for the same cash ticket because of your 25% status bonus, so it’s really costing you 203,960 miles to book the redemption, a value of 2.94 cents per mile. Hi Gabriel, That depends on who is valuing it.If you pay for a flight with cash+miles, you will see that SQ values them at 1.02 cents internally. Get the latest promotions for deposits, credit cards, property listings and online discounts in your inbox, Copyright (C) 2013 - 2021 All Rights Reserved Money Lobang Pte Ltd. You generally book each short to medium-haul flight 3 months in advance, and the long-haul flights 6 months in advance. What value we think you can actually achieve. Sorry but I still cant get my head around when to use points or when to buy ticket . This is the really boring but quite important bit. "Pay with KrisFlyer miles" for SIA flight should be your best alternative option if you have insufficient or expiring miles for a flight redemption. *The average value of a KrisFlyer mile under the various flight class scenarios is derived from a full list of destinations available for each flight class and not only for the destinations listed in the table. Take a flight from Singapore to Paris for example. 5. More on that later. No is the answer, on that assumption we’d be making a loss. All of this still sounds good, after all approximately 3 cents+ per mile is normally far above what you obtained them for. If you’re just getting started in this game and your objective is the same as ours (amazing First and Business Class redemptions with one of the world’s finest airlines) then we’re happy recommending 1.9 cents as a starting point, until you ‘fine tune’ your valuation. The redemption cost with Singapore Airlines is 250,000 miles + S$428.70. There’s a big drawback though The reason we would not ‘buy’ at a higher rate is that KrisFlyer miles simply do not have the flexibility of cash, and Singapore Airlines can change the workings of the scheme anytime they want. Flight redemptions can be with Singapore Airlines and partner airlines. It is a slightly better rate than you will achieve using your miles on Scoot, for example. The transfer rate also fluctuates from country to country, but it is usually 450 reward points for 250 KrisFlyer Miles or 250 KrisFlyer miles for 400 points depending on the card that you have. It’s a one-way ticket to using up your KrisFlyer miles as cash at a pathetic 0.67 cents value each at a very limited range of merchants in Singapore, including ‘car beautification’ (that’s a thing? That’s because fuel surcharges were eliminated from award tickets in March 2017, and for many cheaper Economy fares that outweighed the increased miles cost. We’ve therefore focused on our predominant use of the KrisFlyer scheme, saver Business Class redemptions both short and long, to more accurately assess the value we achieve. If you need to refund the ticket completely, and have the miles re-deposited into your account. We’re hanging our hat on 1.9 cents per mile as the highest rate you should be buying at in 2019 because we’re personally comfortable with it, and we believe it to be defensible. It requires 25,000 Elite miles to qualify for, but there’s no spending requirement. Definitely one worth looking at as an Economy Class redemption, due to the complete lack of non-stop alternatives on the route. Enter your email address to follow Mainly Miles and receive email notifications of new posts. We can all complain about the unfairness of it but life is just not fair like that. So how does one accumulate so many KF miles to pay for flights? If you have miles expiring which you cannot use as there are no redemptions available, having considered a number of other options we outline here including extending your miles for 6 months, this is a possible way to get at least some value from them. Credit Cards Reward Points Redemption Rates, How Much to Spend on Credit Cards for Free Flights, Mileage Credit Cards with Signup Promotions. As we’ve shown in Part 2, very few Economy Class itineraries now provide good value when using your KrisFlyer miles. 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