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Singapore Airlines Business Class Awards Wide Open Starting At 47,000 Chase Points

by Gary Leff

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Via the excellent The Points Analyst, Singapore Airlines business class between New York JFK and Frankfurt is wide open for awards using Air Canada Aeroplan. Up to 9 business class award seats per flight are available:

  • Mid-July through early September
  • January through early April

Normally Aeroplan charges 60,000 miles each way in business class for this flight. However, Chase is running a 20% bonus on transfers to Air Canada Aeroplan through July 31, 2024.  It’s available to Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card; Chase Sapphire Reserve®; J.P. Morgan Reserve; and Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card and Chase Corporate Flex cardmembers.

And it stacks with the 10% bonus available those who also have an Aeroplan® Credit Card. Those cardmembers receive a 10% bonus when transferring Ultimate Rewards points to Aeroplan when moving 50,000 or more points, up to a maximum of 25,000 Aeroplan bonus points per calendar year.  

Thus, Chase Aeroplan cardmembers get up to 30% bonus Aeroplan points when converting at least 50,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points by July 31. So these flights are bookable for as little as 47,000 Chase points each way.

In addition to Chase, you can also transfer points to Air Canada Aeroplan from American Express, Capital One and Bilt.

Aeroplan is currently selling points for 1.33 cents apiece through donations to Miles4Migrants. That makes a one-way business class award cost ~ $800.

  • Note though that points do not post instantly, and while I wouldn’t expect it to take this long they note that it may be up to 8 weeks (by which time this award space will likely be gone).
  • You can generate up to 75,000 Aeroplan points with this promotion, which will last until 18.75 million Aeroplan points have been awarded or December 31, 2024 whichever comes first.
  • Not tax advice, but I think you’d be on questionable ground deducting your Miles4Migrants donation.

You can also transfer points directly to Singapore from Chase, American Express, Citi and Capital One but Singapore charges 81,000 points each way per person.

This is one of the best ways to get between the U.S. East Coast and Europe on points. It isn’t as cheap as using Iberia Avios to book Iberia’s business class from the Northeast (34,000 points each way) but you… aren’t flying Iberia.

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