Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic end partnership
The two airlines will no longer offer reciprocal lounge access or the ‘earning and burning’ of miles.
By Staff Writers, February 11 2025
Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic are bringing their long-standing partnership to a close, in a move that will clip the wings of frequent flyers.
From April 24, 2025, the airlines will end their frequent flyer alliance by “mutual agreement”.
Members of Singapore Airlines’ KrisFlyer rewards program will no longer be able to earn KrisFlyer miles on Virgin Atlantic flights, or redeem those miles for points-based bookings.
However, KrisFlyer reward bookings can be made for Virgin Atlantic flights stretching as far ahead as April 2026, as long as those bookings are locked in before the April 24 2025 cut-off date.
The same date also sees KrisFlyer Elite Gold and PPS Club members lose access to all status benefits when flying with Virgin Atlantic – such as access to Virgin’s Clubhouse lounges, priority check-in, a boosted luggage allowance and so on.
Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Club members will see the same impact on Singapore Airlines flights, such as earning – or rather not earning – Virgin Points and Tier Points, and losing access to Singapore Airlines lounges.
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24 Aug 2011
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Not really a surprise. It is over a decade since SQ sold its VS shares to Delta and since then VS has become much more a trans-Atlantic partner of Delta as well as a member of Skyteam. In many respects, the VA arrangement with VS is also now an anomaly and may eventually be undone.
09 Feb 2021
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The VA/SQ arrangement is certainly vulnerable now that QR are effectively running the show at VA.
However, it may be saved by the pragmatic reality. SQ have no alternative partner to provide domestic connections within Australia. Similarly, while QR may want to take all the Aus-Europe traffic, VA have few good alternative partners for flights into Asia. Losing SQ would mean they are no longer a credible alternative to QF for many international travelers.
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04 Nov 2017
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The other alternative is that VA/Bain could pay SQ for a "unilateral" arrangement, i.e still give VA/VFF customers access to Asia through a unilateral codeshare (i.e no benefits the other way e.g SQ KFs flying VA). This is pretty much the similar arrangement on their NZ codeshare, or EY providing domestic connections in Australia through their (soon to end) unilateral codeshare with VA.
Whilst SQ could potentially bail on the VA domestic network and fly to some of the regional areas themselves (i.e they increased services in DRW and up-gauged CNS to a A350 recently), I can't see that happening in the short term at the least, or medium term at the most.
21 Apr 2019
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I wonder If Virgin Atlantic may now fly to SIN?
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