Alliance benefits, like Star Gold recognition, go away once an airline leave the Star Alliance.
Reciprocal frequent flyer agreements may exist entirely apart from the alliance. Singapore’s agreement with US Airways has an end date that’s after US Airways’ departure from Star. Singapore appears to be continuing its frequent flyer relationship with TAM.
Both US Airways and TAM leave Star Alliance and join oneworld on March 31. Here’s what will happen to their relationships with Singapore.
In the case of US Airways, it’s not all that useful to US Airways Dividend Miles members during the April through July period.
US Airways has a great award chart for intra-Asia travel, if there’s availability you can book Singapore – Male (Maldives) roundtrip in business class for 30,000 miles.
But US Airways doesn’t have access to Singapore Airlines premium cabin long haul availability… even without the latter’s exit from Star Alliance. Singapore just doesn’t release much premium cabin long haul space to partners at all. And US Airways even recognized that in its award rules, publishing on its award chart that
Award redemption on the Singapore Airlines Suites, First Class and Business Class cabin products on the A380, B777-300ER and A340-500 aircraft is currently unavailable
That wasn’t a technical glitch, just a description of fact.
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Does this mean we can use US Air miles to redeem travel on SQ for next year, as long as it’s booked before July 31,
@italdesign, yes of course you have to find the availability first!
That’s Good news. Had my eye on SIN-MLE for a while for a Maldives trip next year. 30k US for biz is by far the best redemption I’ve found.