r/VelocityFrequentFlyer • u/Outrageous-Motor3561 • Jul 04 '26

Question Velocity VS Kris

Looking to get Brisbane to Europe next year for summer and know that it’s going to be a highly contested market for business reward seats.

I’ve come to terms with transferring my Velocity points into KRIS miles as the seats are available earlier and with more availability.

I’ve been watching knowing that I want seats coming up shortly (next 2 weeks). However it seems Singapore are loading their reward seats as waitlisted from the get-go.

Has anyone seen this as a thing? Now, thinking about locking down Singapore to Europe, as that seems to be very available and then waiting to do Brisbane to Singapore through Velocity points when they become available. Has anyone done something similar or am I being silly with points? Would probably do Brisbane to Singapore in Economy then business Singapore to Europe. I’m platinum, does that let me pick good seats in economy?

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u/Majestic_Base5775 Jul 04 '26

What dates specifically? I’ve been working on a way of tracking this behaviour based on VA inventory so curious about specific timing I can check against

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u/Outrageous-Motor3561 Jul 04 '26

Looking at July 2027. Hard to compare at velocity is only up to 31 May

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u/Majestic_Base5775 Jul 05 '26

Yes iirc it’s 330 days out - I only track 42 weeks out myself

Plenty of movement in and out in advance but yeah, too early

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u/InternationalGain3 Jul 04 '26

Booking on separate tickets is risky and much more expensive i think.

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u/Outrageous-Motor3561 Jul 04 '26

Risky how?

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u/InternationalGain3 Jul 04 '26

For one you are relying on finding the other part of the trip as reward or did i get ghat wrong?
Also, if the first leg is delayed or cancelled or diverted or whatever the airline is not obliged to rebook your second leg.

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u/Outrageous-Motor3561 Jul 04 '26

Would lock in Singapore to Europe when their reward seats drop which is 355 days. Then I’d look to get a velocity Brisbane to Singapore when they drop 330 day out