I gave myself a birthday present: here is my second madness of 2025 (booked only with points)
An impulsive decision-or almost. Imagine you find yourself bored at home on a dreary Sunday afternoon. You open your computer, make [...]
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An impulsive decision-or almost. Imagine you find yourself bored at home on a dreary Sunday afternoon. You open your computer, do a quick search, and from the bedroom, you scream: "Marika, shall we make it crazy?" A few seconds later, the answer came without hesitation: "Where are we going?"
Back aboard the Suite on Singapore Airlines' A380.
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Perhaps not everyone knows that The Flight Club was not born out of social, but out of a website that, over time, evolved into a YouTube channel and then went all in on social platforms. When I decided to put my face on it and become a youtuber, I did it with a special ticket: the one for the best first class in the world, or the Suites on Singapore Airlines' A380.
That first video, published now years ago, now has more than 200,000 views. It is the most viewed content on my channel-at least for now. But there are pieces of that trip that are completely lost, because at the time I was very excited And, after just 10 minutes on board, already drunk. That's why I decided to do it again, this time with more experience--and more clarity!
This time I will not be alone aboard Singapore's A380
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After my flight aboard Etihad's The Residence, I received an avalanche of messages with the same question:
"Why didn't you bring Marika with you?"
This time I will not be alone. I promised him: if I did this experience again, I would have flown with her. The same will happen when I come back on board de Air France Première.
This will not be his first time in First Class, but it will certainly be a unique experience because. no airline offers a product comparable to that of Singapore Airlines. The Residence, for example, is present only on five planes, with only one seat per flight, while SQ has more operational A380s And several Suites available.
How much did this madness cost me?
Finding an award seat in first class with Singapore Airlines is not impossible, but these are often flights operated with the Boeing 777, not with theA380. Find two On an A380, however, it is a rarity.
For comparison, my first time In this cabin has been on the course Frankfurt - New York, when Singapore Airlines operated this flight in fifth freedom With the A380. That ticket had cost me only 84,000 points KrisFlyer, a real bargain!
Today, the A380 flies from Frankfurt and London to Singapore, while the other routes on which it is employed are shorter (the airline no longer operates direct flights to the United States and reaches Sydney at most). For this, and in order to also experience the First Class Lounges in Changi, I decided to book the Longest available route: Singapore - London, about 14 hours of flight time at best first class in the world.
Good things cost money, and this Is a really expensive ticket.
- Rate Saver: 141,000 miles KrisFlyer
- Advantage Rate: 225,000 miles KrisFlyer
On the other hand, Singapore Airlines does not charge significant fees, so in addition to the points, you pay only a few euros.
Two tickets, paid cash cost 17 thousand euros
Of course it would not be correct to make such a countervalue, but to get an idea the price of the two tickets for the same day, booked at the same time had a cost of just over 24k Singapore dollars, at the exchange just under 17k euros.
To have a term of comparison with this ticket I would have accumulated just over 13,500 Krisflyer miles, basically you need 9 round-trip tickets to get enough points for an award ticket in F.
How did we accumulate so many points
Of course one might say. "ehh Barbone easy, you spend so much on American Express Credit Cards." true, but in this case we both burned only the points we got from the "Introduce a friend from American Express" bonus.
Every year all holders can make up to 300k points for free, no matter what Card you own, just send your link and 300k points. If you then become American Express Platinum holder you can immediately take advantage of the opportunity to invite friends and accumulate the bonus in 2025.
