One of my disciple just returned from South Africa recently and prepared a freaking detail report of not only his Business Class experience but complete with his Safari Adventure 🙂
How did a kampung kia ended up in South Africa?:)
SOUTH AFRICA IS THE BEST KRISFLYER (business class) REDEMPTION PER MINUTE OF FLIGHT TIME
One day I was reading an article about the Best Krisflyer redemption per minute of flight time and Cape Town was top of list . However, it will be a short trip for me so I decided to go Johannesburg (4th on the list) to save some transit time. (For Cape Town one has to transit in Johannesburg, just stay in the plane for 1hour transit, another 2hours flight time to Cape Town). Joburg safari meets my criteria list for a short holiday using award tickets.
- Firstly, the award tickets must be good value for points. (SQ business class return ticket to South Africa cost around rm14,000 to rm2x,000 depends on when you book it and your flying date)
- The destination should be somewhere that I am not willing to pay for the tickets for such a short trip.
- It has to be somewhere my wife wants to go too ( Ok it was my wife who set this criterion )
My trip details:
Safari tour : 4days Tydon Bush camp safari ( RM4,200/ person)
Date: November 2018
Flight: Singapore airlines business class return award tickets ( 90,000 krisflyer points/ person)
Penang- Singapore- Johannesburg (Business class bulkhead seats, flight time 720min)
Johannesburg- Singapore- Penang ( Business class normal window seats, flight time 720min)
Krisflyer Points/ Minute flight time = 62.5
Let’s Go
My wife and I arrived Penang international airport at 6pm for our 915pm flight. After checking in we headed to plaza premier lounge for some refreshment. It was a small and almost good enough lounge except for the shocking toilet which was terrible.
Small and quiet lounge
Food is better than most KL plaza premium lounges but I cant say it was yummy😊
The toilet was shocking!
We were soon in our Penang-SG flight, SQ363 (Boeing 737, flight time 1h 25min). We have chosen the bulkhead seats, 1F and 1D. I won’t into details as it was a very short flight.
The seats were big and comfy but not flat bed seats.
GenX GenY GenZ 
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