The Bridge is great except that it's always so crowded, including my last visit in June 2016. The newly reopened Pier should be much better in this regard considering the size.

Hi gommm, sorry for the late reply but tishaban has already covered most of what I was going to say. I also have no experience in SQ RTW redemption but I've done Asia Miles' multi carrier award redemptions (MCAR) and SQ regular award redemptions. All my redemptions have been minimum of 2 persons so if you're just redeeming for yourself, the experience should be smoother.

I used KVS when booking my last few Asia Miles MCAR. No real added value like you said (I just kind of liked its retro GUI and Mobile Companion tool). I haven't renewed my subscription since and have been using mainly Asia Miles own website to search for individual sectors when piecing together the entire trip.

All my MCARs were not strictly RTW, it was more like 2-3 trips for a year with me coming back to SIN and taking a flight home and resuming my next trip from SIN. I understand in your case the inability to change dates for a partially used ticket is very limiting to your planning. I know upgrading from J to F is not allowed for a partially used ticket but best to call them and check re date changes.

SQ's Krisflyer Membership hotline staff are generally quite good in my experience (much better than CX/Asia Miles'). Redeeming SQ Suites has always been interesting, especially now that the new Suites are coming. What route do you have in mind?

I won't convert your treatpoints until you have a pretty good idea of the dates, routes and respective award availability.

Have fun and report back!

My MCARs were all a single award. Some agents will refuse backtracking to same city, others are more lenient. YMMV. My last MCAR I was a no show for the last sector. Not quite sure what you mean by what will happen. Since it was the last sector and all previous sectors were flown, we just did not show up.

500K Asia Miles can get you 2 First Class tickets to JFK with 60k miles to spare.

Mind sharing what kind of investment and which bank?

Thanks for the pointer.

CX F KUL-HKG retails for USD17k per person. I just did this route in January. You can have a read on my blog:
dctravels.org.

Beg your pardon, yes I meant KUL-JFK.

I forked out HKD681 for the return ticket.

Same as you: "painstaking effort of collecting 1 mile at a time through credit cards"

Multi-carrier with AM. Enrich miles are ridiculous. BA Club World is quite poor. MH A380 J much better.

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Yes, one thing good about Enrich is nearly guaranteed availability. That said, you can check availability first before converting into AM. But ya, AM redemption can be a pain.

As herc said, you need to call up but you better have your dates and flight details on hand.

Problem is availability you see using say United or Life Miles DOES NOT translate into availability for SQ.

Flyertalk forum indicates this is due to SQ being stingy in releasing their premium cabins to other *A carriers thus they reciprocate.

It all depends.

Where is your intended destination, class of travel, travel dates?

Well done on the multi-carrier redemption. 3 hours on the phone in total sounds about right. Each call will last around 45mins to an hour. Haven't done a multi-carrier redemption for some time though but I think it still takes some time and patience.

I would have said Enrich but I have no idea the miles required after 10 June devaluation kicks in.

KF saver award availability is challenging, especially for LHR. Ditto for AM unless you redeem close to a year out.

You can play around with dates to get an idea of availability and miles required.

I had no problems with both KUL-HKG-JFK and KUL-HKG-LAX using this link.

No worries. Enjoy spending your 500K AM!

Glad you have finally seen the light

Yup. The last time I used Enrich for Australia was years ago for my parents to fly to Melbourne. With the 50% discount it was a fantastic redemption, especially with domestic connections required. But that was YEARS ago. We have been getting nothing but bad news from MH. The 10 June Enrich devaluation was the last nail in the coffin.

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For what they are requiring now for their A330 J product to MEL one can fly SQ First Class.

It's not even funny.

I won't go that far.. SQ J product is just wide. All other aspects, especially the foot cubby is bad if you ask me. MH's J product on the A380 trumps that of SQ's (non-bulkhead) J, IMHO.

My point was for around 160k miles flying to Melbourne, I will take SQ First Class anytime over MH's A330 J. It also goes to show just how out of touch/head in sand MH's management is.