singapore airlines – Dots, Lines & Destinations

A smooth connection in Seattle was unexpected. Smoothing connections in Africa might be useful. And Brexit likely means rough connections for millions. Hooray!

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DLD 215: Can Clippy start an engine??

October 18, 2018
Tagged as: 737, 737MAX, A220, American Airlines, Boeing, BOS, Boston, Dallas, Delta, DFW, DHS, EWR, Heathrow, LaGuardia, LCC, LCCs, LGA, LHR, Newark, routes, security, SIN, singapore, singapore airlines, TATL, Transatlantic, ULCC, United Airlines, WOW Air

Engines, engines, everywhere! Even more of which are now broken. Plus many inaugurals and maybe your biometric security data will be sold to an airline or airport soon.

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DLD 207: Second guessing Singapore

August 23, 2018
Tagged as: A350, Air Canada, China, EWR, Los Angeles, Newark, SIN, singapore, singapore airlines, Twitter, ULH, United Airlines, Washington DC

Will the Singapore-Newark route really fly? Some of us are more skeptical than others. Plus, United’s new elite status for corporations, body scanner cameras for the subway, gentrification sucks, Twitter sucks, US traffic from China tanked and more.

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DLD 196: Some long ones

June 7, 2018
Tagged as: Air France, Bombardier, Brussels Airlines, elite status, EWR, IATA, IATAAGM18, Newark, O'Hare, ORD, PaxEx, PIT, Pittsburgh, PVG, Shanghai, SIN, singapore, singapore airlines, Star Alliance, United, United Airlines

We mean long routes, not an extra long episode, so don’t worry too much about that. Then again, some of our conversations are pretty long rambles. Enjoy!

Don’t worry: This episode isn’t nearly as long as the flights we’re talking about. But with Perth-London service launched recently we’re all about the very, very long flights. Plus, special guest Cynthia Drescher is back to join in the conversation.

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DLD 112: Ultra-long Competition

June 23, 2016
Tagged as: Los Angeles, podcast, singapore, Singapore Air, singapore airlines, United, United Airlines

When the fourth longest route in the world suddenly has direct competition something crazy is happening in the industry. Or, you know, airlines gonna airline.

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Booking a Singapore Suite with points

November 28, 2012
Tagged as: airlines, award, singapore, singapore airlines

Since Singapore Airlines installed their Suites product as the first class seating on some of their aircraft getting one reserved using points has been rather difficult, if not ridiculously expensive. When they initially started to…

PointsHoarder 14 – Honored Mistake Fares and Old Routes

November 1, 2012
Tagged as: aa, alitalia, american, Comfort Class Premium Economy, dusseldorf, longest flights, mistake fare, Qatar, singapore, singapore airlines, Turkish, United

Episode 14 of the PointsHoarder podcast is now up! In this episode Fozz takes the helm and walks us through the announcement that Alitalia will honor (some of) the mistake fares they issued, Singapore Airlines…

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DLD 218: Smoothing connections