KrisFlyer kills the cheap Singapore stopover trick
Singapore Airlines ended KrisFlyer's paid stopover option — previously as cheap as $100 for an extended stay in Singapore — and capped free stopovers at 30 days. The change lands a month after the program's broader award-chart hike.
Singapore Airlines has closed one of KrisFlyer’s best-loved loopholes: the cheap stopover. Until now, a paid add-on costing as little as $100 bought you an extended stay in Singapore mid-itinerary — effectively two trips for one award. As of August 1, paid stopovers are gone entirely, and free stopovers can no longer exceed 30 days.
The $100 stopover was the kind of quirk that made KrisFlyer feel generous beyond its award chart: hoard miles for one long-haul redemption, then bolt on a week in Singapore for pocket change. That play is now dead.
The timing tells the story. This lands exactly a month after KrisFlyer’s broader award-chart hike, making it the second nerf of the summer — 2022 is officially the year KrisFlyer stopped being everyone’s favourite soft target.
Our take: the stopover trick was pure upside for informed members, which is precisely why it got killed. KrisFlyer remains a cornerstone program for Indian transferable points, but the era of it quietly over-delivering is over. Redeem for the flying, not the loopholes.