Singapore Airlines has released its regular Spontaneous Escapes offer for travel in May 2023, with 30% off the usual Saver miles redemption rates when you lock in Economy, Premium Economy and Business Class awards to and from selected cities on the network over the next two weeks.
If there’s a destination on the list you’re looking for, and you can make firm travel plans, it’s always worth considering snapping up one of these seats while this discount is available.
Deals this month include Singapore to Sydney and Singapore to Melbourne in Business Class on the Airbus A380 for 47,950 miles, or Singapore to Christchurch for 47,950 miles in Business Class on the Airbus A350 Long Haul. London to Singapore for 29,400 miles in Economy Class may also be useful for some, but beware the very high taxes and fees!
You can also redeem Copenhagen to Singapore in Business Class for 72,450 miles.
Regionally, restriction-free Hong Kong also makes an appearance again, with award rates of 11,550 miles in Economy Class, 18,550 miles in Premium Economy and 23,800 miles in Business Class worth a look.
Do note that blackout dates on many routes are quite extensive for this offer.
If you do find a route of interest, you’ll need to book these ‘Promo’ awards over the next two weeks – between 17th April 2023 and 30th April 2023 – for travel in May 2023, but remember there’s no flexibility and in most cases no refunds are allowed.
Redemption continues to only be available online at singaporeair.com, not via the mobile app, according to Singapore Airlines, though I am still having no problems accessing the deal via the iOS app, so this issue looks almost certain to have been resolved, or perhaps only affects Android users.
Terms and conditions
Here are the terms and conditions for the Spontaneous Escapes promotion.
May 2023 offer
- A 30% discount on saver award redemptions for travel to and/or from selected destinations in May 2023.
- Redeem online at singaporeair.com between 17th April 2023 and 30th April 2023.
- Flights are non-refundable and non-changeable.
- Blackout dates apply on some routes (see the full list below for details).
- Book one-way legs if the discount only applies on one of the two (or more) flights you need. You cannot book one-way Promo (Spontaneous Escapes) and one-way Saver / Advantage awards in the same booking.
- Travel must be completed by 31st May 2023.
- Book as many redemptions as you like at Spontaneous Escapes rates – it’s not capped.
- You cannot waitlist for Promo (Spontaneous Escapes) redemptions.
- For any flights cancelled by SIA, or if a flight was removed from a Spontaneous Escapes booking due to COVID-19 and governmental regulatory changes, the miles redeemed in the unused portion of the ticket will be refunded, with no additional fees charged.
- Requests to change any booking details, or to retain the ticket for future use, will not be granted.
In a nutshell – be sure to have firm travel plans if you’re locking in a Spontaneous Escapes deal.
Business Class Deals
As always, we’re the only site showing the aircraft type and the Business Class seat product planned for these routes flight number by flight number, to help you choose better and travel smarter on your discounted Spontaneous Escapes getaway.
Here are the five different SIA Business Class seat type abbreviations for reference:
| Singapore Airlines Business Class seat types |
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| Regional | ||
 738 RJ |
 MAX RJ |
 2018 RJ |
| Long-Haul | ||
 2013 J |
 2017 J |
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Some of our readers even choose their preferred route based on the aircraft or seat type, especially those looking to try one of the carrier’s newer products for the first time!
Here are the discounts on offer for travel in Business Class this month.
South East Asia
| Singapore to Kuala Lumpur | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
14,700 |
SQ112 SQ118 SQ122 |
A350 LH 737-800 A350 LH |
2013 J 738 RJ 2013 J |
| Kuala Lumpur to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
14,700 |
SQ105 SQ111 SQ107 |
A350 LH A350 LH 737-800 |
2013 J 2013 J 738 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 2 May | ||
| Singapore to Surabaya | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
14,700 |
SQ922 | A350 MH | 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 7 May 10 May 24 May |
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| Surabaya to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
14,700 |
SQ923 | A350 MH | 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 3 May 13 May 17 May 20 May |
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| Singapore to Jakarta | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
14,700 |
SQ950 | 777-300ER | 2013 J |
| Blackout: | 1 – 12 May | ||
| Jakarta to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
14,700 |
SQ951 | 777-300ER | 2013 J |
| Blackout: | 1 – 5 May 8 May 17 – 18 May |
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| Singapore to Ho Chi Minh | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
16,800 |
SQ184 SQ186 |
A350 MH A350 MH |
2018 RJ 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 2 May 9 May |
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| Ho Chi Minh to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
16,800 |
SQ177 SQ183 |
A350 MH A350 MH |
2018 RJ 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 5 May 10 – 12 May 19 – 20 May |
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North Asia
| Singapore to Guangzhou | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
23,800 |
SQ850 | A350 MH | 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 7 May 27 – 31 May |
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| Guangzhou to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
23,800 |
SQ851 | A350 MH | 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 4 May 21 May |
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| Singapore to Hong Kong | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
23,800 |
SQ898 SQ874 |
A350 MH A350 LH |
2018 RJ 2013 J |
| Blackout: | 1 – 2 May 8 May 11 – 12 May 14 – 16 May 20 May 26 -29 May |
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| Hong Kong to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
23,800 |
SQ899 SQ875 |
A350 MH A350 LH |
2018 RJ 2013 J |
| Blackout: | 1 – 4 May 13 – 14 May 19 – 22 May |
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West Asia & Africa
| Singapore to Ahmedabad | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ504 | A350 MH | 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 23 – 28 May | ||
| Singapore to Kolkata | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ516 | A350 MH (Mon, Sat, Sun) 737-8 MAX (Tue-Fri) |
2018 RJ MAX RJ MAX RJ |
| Blackout: | 2 – 5 May 9 – 12 May 16 – 19 May 23 – 26 May 30 – 31 May |
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| Kolkata to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ517 | A350 MH (Mon, Sat, Sun) 737-8 MAX (Tue-Fri) |
2018 RJ MAX RJ MAX RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 5 May 9 – 12 May 16 – 19 May 23 – 26 May 30 – 31 May |
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| Singapore to Bangalore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ510 SQ512 |
A350 MH A350 MH |
2018 RJ 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 May 14 May |
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| Bangalore to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ513 | A350 MH | 2018 RJ |
| Singapore to Colombo | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ468 | 787-10 | 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 2 May | ||
| Colombo to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ469 | 787-10 | 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 5 May 22 May |
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| Singapore to Hyderabad | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ522 | 737-8 MAX (Mon-Wed) A350 MH (Thu-Sun) |
MAX RJ 2018 RJ 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 3 May 8 – 10 May 14 – 17 May 21 – 24 May 29 – 31 May |
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| Hyderabad to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ523 | 737-8 MAX (Mon-Wed) A350 MH (Thu-Sun) |
MAX RJ 2018 RJ 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 1 – 5 May 7 – 10 May 14 – 17 May 22 – 24 May 29 – 31 May |
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| Singapore to New Delhi | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ402 SQ406 |
787-10 A380 |
2018 RJ 2017 J |
| New Delhi to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ403 | A380 | 2017 J |
| Singapore to Chennai | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ526 SQ528 |
A350 MH A350 MH |
2018 RJ 2018 RJ |
| Blackout: | 30 May | ||
| Chennai to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
30,100 |
SQ527 | A350 MH | 2018 RJ |
Australia
| Singapore to Sydney | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
47,950 |
SQ221 SQ221 SQ231 |
A350 MH (till 16/5) A380 (fm 17/5) A380 |
2018 RJ 2017 J 2017 J |
| Blackout: | 1 – 2 May 5 – 6 May 11 – 14 May 17 – 18 May 23 – 31 May |
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| Singapore to Melbourne | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
47,950 |
SQ237 SQ237 |
777-300ER (till 15/5) A380 (fm 16/5) |
2013 J 2017 J |
| Blackout: | 1 – 4 May 11 – 15 May 19 – 21 May 25 – 28 May |
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| Singapore to Christchurch | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
47,950 |
SQ297 | A350 LH | 2013 J |
| Blackout: | 5 – 7 May 25 – 27 May |
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Europe
| Frankfurt to New York (JFK) | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
56,700 |
SQ26 SQ26 |
A380 (till 15/5) 777-300ER (fm 16/5) |
2017 J 2013 J |
| Blackout: | 6 May 8 May 11 – 14 May 17 – 18 May 21 May 26 May 28 – 30 May |
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| Copenhagen to Singapore | |||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft | Seats |
72,450 |
SQ351 | A350 LH | 2013 J |
| Blackout: | 3 – 7 May 12 May |
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Premium Economy Class Deals
Here are the discounts on offer for travel in Premium Economy, including the aircraft types used for each eligible route and flight number.
North Asia
| Singapore to Hong Kong | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
18,550 |
SQ874 SQ892 |
A350 LH A380 |
| Hong Kong to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
18,550 |
SQ875 SQ893 |
A350 LH A380 |
| Blackout: | 1 – 2 May | |
West Asia & Africa
| Singapore to Mumbai | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
24,150 |
SQ424 | A380 |
| Blackout: | 25 – 28 May | |
| Singapore to New Delhi | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
24,150 |
SQ406 | A380 |
Southwest Pacific
| Singapore to Sydney | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
35,700 |
SQ221 SQ231 |
A350 MH A380 |
| Blackout: | 1 – 7 May 12 – 16 May 26 – 28 May |
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| Singapore to Melbourne | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
35,700 |
SQ237 | 777-300ER |
| Blackout: | 2 May 5 – 7 May 13 – 15 May 26 – 28 May |
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Europe
| Frankfurt to New York (JFK) | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
36,400 |
SQ26 | 777-300ER |
| Blackout: | 17 May 26 – 27 May |
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| Copenhagen to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
49,700 |
SQ351 | A350 LH |
| Blackout: | 7 May 14 May |
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USA
| Narita to Los Angeles | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
51,100 |
SQ12 | 777-300ER |
| Blackout: | 1 – 3 May 5 May 24 May 28 – 31 May |
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| Singapore to San Francisco | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
52,500 |
SQ34 | A350 ULR |
| Blackout: | 1 – 15 May | |
Economy Class Deals
Here are the discounts on offer for travel in Economy Class.
We have also included the aircraft types used for each eligible route and flight number, so you can choose based on your preference where multiple flights are available.
South East Asia
| Singapore to Kuala Lumpur | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
5,950 |
SQ112 SQ114 SQ118 SQ122 |
A350 LH 737-800 737-800 A350 LH |
| Kuala Lumpur to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
5,950 |
SQ103 SQ105 SQ107 SQ111 |
737-800 A350 LH 737-800 A350 LH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 2 May | |
| Singapore to Surabaya | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
5,950 |
SQ922 | A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 7 May 10 May 12 – 13 May 26 – 27 May 31 May |
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| Surabaya to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
5,950 |
SQ923 | A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 3 May 5 – 6 May 10 May 12 – 13 May 17 May 19 – 20 May 24 May 26 – 27 May 31 May |
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| Singapore to Medan | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
5,950 |
SQ990 SQ994 |
737-8 MAX 737-8 MAX |
| Blackout: | 1 – 7 May | |
| Medan to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
5,950 |
SQ991 SQ995 |
737-8 MAX 737-8 MAX |
| Singapore to Ho Chi Minh | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
9,450 |
SQ184 SQ186 |
A350 MH A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 4 May 22 – 23 May |
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| Ho Chi Minh to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
9,450 |
SQ177 SQ183 |
A350 MH A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 5 May 17 – 21 May |
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| Singapore to Siem Reap | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
9,450 |
SQ166 | 737-8 MAX |
| Blackout: | 27 – 30 May | |
North Asia
| Singapore to Guangzhou | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
11,550 |
SQ850 | A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 7 May 27 – 31 May |
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| Guangzhou to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
11,550 |
SQ851 | A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 May | |
| Hong Kong to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
11,550 |
SQ899 | A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 8 May 11 – 21 May 26 May |
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| Singapore to Beijing | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
15,050 |
SQ802 | A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 7 May 10 May 12 May 20 – 31 May |
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| Beijing to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
15,050 |
SQ807 | A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 2 May | |
| Singapore to Shanghai | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
15,050 |
SQ830 SQ836 |
787-10 A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 7 May 25 – 31 May |
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| Shanghai to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
15,050 |
SQ825 SQ833 |
A350 MH 787-10 |
| Blackout: | 1 May | |
West Asia & Africa
| Singapore to Kolkata | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
14,000 |
SQ516 |
A350 MH (Mon, Sat, Sun) 737-8 MAX (Tue-Fri) |
| Blackout: | 17 – 18 May 23 – 31 May |
|
| Singapore to Colombo | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
14,000 |
SQ468 | 787-10 |
| Blackout: | 1 – 10 May 21 May 26 – 30 May |
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| Colombo to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
14,000 |
SQ469 | 787-10 |
| Blackout: | 1 – 15 May 20 May |
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| Singapore to New Delhi | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
14,000 |
SQ406 | A380 |
| Blackout: | 1 May 10 May 21 May 24 – 31 May |
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Australia
| Singapore to Sydney | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
21,350 |
SQ221 | A350 MH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 5 May 8 – 10 May 14 – 16 May 20 May 25 – 31 May |
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Europe
| Frankfurt to New York (JFK) | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
17,500 |
SQ26 | 777-300ER |
| Blackout: | 25 May 27 – 30 May |
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| Manchester to Houston | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
17,500 |
SQ52 | A350 LH |
| Copenhagen to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
29,400 |
SQ351 | A350 LH |
| Blackout: | 14 May 20 May 27 – 31 May |
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| Milan to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
29,400 |
SQ377 SQ355 |
A350 LH A350 LH |
| Blackout: | 3 – 8 May 14 May 17 – 19 May 21 May 23 – 25 May 27 – 28 May |
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| London to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
29,400 |
SQ305 SQ317 SQ319 SQ321 |
777-300ER A380 A380 777-300ER |
| Blackout: | 1 May 25 – 27 May |
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| Paris to Singapore | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
29,400 |
SQ335 SQ331 |
777-300ER A350 LH |
| Blackout: | 2 – 12 May 17 – 18 May 27 May 30 May |
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USA
| Singapore to Los Angeles | ||
| Miles | Flights | Aircraft |
29,400 |
SQ36 SQ38 |
A350 LH A350 LH |
| Blackout: | 1 – 11 May 13 May 16 May 18 May 20 May 25 – 31 May |
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Book the ‘Promo’ award category
Singapore Airlines offers the Spontaneous Escapes deals under its “Promo” award category, which you’ll see alongside the usual Saver and Advantage award rates on applicable flights.
If the Promo award rate is not shown for your preferred flight, even though it is listed as part of the offer, that unfortunately means there is no availability remaining at the Spontaneous Escapes rate (but do check back later, like Saver and Advantage award space – it can come and go).
Remember, you cannot waitlist for Promo awards – it’s either available for immediate redemption, or it’s not.
The “Promo” award category also means Spontaneous Escapes award capacity can be loaded as a subset of the Saver award space. This allows you to continue to book at Saver rates (if you prefer the flexibility, for example), or allows the airline to stop offering Spontaneous Escapes rates on a particular flight, while not necessarily having to remove the Saver rate at the same time, like they did under the pre-pandemic system.
It also allows you to book at a discount for larger groups, for example if there are three of you travelling but only two Promo (Spontaneous Escapes) award seats are loaded for the flight you want to travel on, you can potentially redeem the two remaining Promo seats and one Saver seat on a separate booking, and still effectively achieve a 20% overall miles discount between you.
What if you already booked?
If you have already redeemed your miles on a flight that has now become eligible for the Spontaneous Escapes offer, unfortunately there’s no simple way to change it and pay the reduced miles rate.
You will have to book again at the Spontaneous Escapes rate, then cancel the existing booking and pay the miles redeposit fee (don’t do it the other way round, in case the Spontaneous Escapes Promo space disappears in the meantime!).
This will require you to have sufficient miles in your account to immediately lock in the Spontaneous Escapes rate.
If you need the miles from the original booking in order to make the Spontaneous Escapes one due to an insufficient balance, be very careful!
Since you will first have to cancel the original booking, you are now at the mercy of the Spontaneous Escapes space remaining available on the flight, and it can sometimes take a few days for the miles from your original cancelled booking to be re-credited to your account.
Full details
For full details of this month’s Spontaneous Escapes offer, including terms and conditions (but sadly not including the aircraft type and seat type details we have provided above!), head over to the KrisFlyer Spontaneous Escapes promo page.
Summary
The regular monthly Spontaneous Escapes deal is back for travel in May 2023 for those who can make short-term travel plans, this month including Hong Kong, Christchurch, Sydney and Melbourne in Business Class, in addition to a host of other regularly discounted routes.
There’s even a Europe – Singapore Business Class deal for those departing from Copenhagen.
Check out the full deal here, and do refer to our seat types summary for Business Class in the tables above to pick the aircraft with the best cabin product for your routing.
Remember if you’re unable to secure a return flight at the discounted rates, book two one-way tickets instead. You’ll pay the ‘Promo’ rate one-way and the usual ‘Saver’ rate for the non-discounted sector, but at least the whole itinerary will not be at the usual rate (and a 15% saving is still welcome).
Will you be locking in any of the Spontaneous Escapes offers for May 2023? Let us know in the comments section below.
(Cover Photo: Plane’s Portrait Aviation Media / Malcolm Lu)
Hi, is Spontaneous Escapes campaign apply for point to point flight ? For e.g fly from to SUB-HKG, both of economy class eligible for Promo, but while i’m put KNO-HKG always shown saver rate. Please advice 🙂
Connecting flights are not supported even if both are at the Promo rate. You would have to book SUB-SIN for 14.7k in J and separately book SIN-HKG for 23.8k in J which is 38.5k total.
Not only would the itinerary then be unprotected, there would be no point in doing this because the SUB-HKG Saver rate is 34k!
Interesting to note that there are many black-out dates in the month of May.
Thanks for the update as always. Just a comment on the blackout dates though, they are very extensive this month but I don’t think you need to mention the year on each range, we all know it applies to May 2023 and not some other year!
It would declutter the tables somewhat if the year was removed in IMHO. For your consideration.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve removed the year from the blackout dates and I agree it looks a lot clearer this way. Will also adopt this for future monthly SE updates.
thanks for complete update. which one is worth, redeem now to get Award Saver or wait until next Spontaneous Escape
because I am going to fly 6 June 2023 business class for SIN-SUB
SUB quite commonly appears on Spontaneous Escapes but of course there are no guarantees for June. It depends whether you are willing to take the risk of waiting until ~15th May to find out!
Nice to know. Thank for sharing. Well noted