
Overview
If you’re looking to plan a significant international holiday – and have saved up a bunch of Velocity points – this guide’s for you!
Although Velocity doesn’t offer a direct redemption, you can transfer your points to KrisFlyer miles and redeem a Round The World trip flying Singapore Airlines and Star Alliance airlines!
The Star Alliance Round The World reward allows you to build a 35,000-mile, 7-stopover itinerary for just 240,000 KrisFlyer miles in Business (or 324,000 transferred-in Velocity points). This is 2 more stopovers than the Qantas Round The World redemption!
An Economy reward is also available (180,000 KrisFlyer Miles or 243,000 Velocity points) however Business is by far the sweet-spot. Unless you already have a truckload of Velocity points to burn, you’re much better off targeting the Qantas Round The World reward if you’re happy with a pew at the back of the plane (140,000 points in Economy).
Like the Qantas option, a Business Class Round The World cash fare comes at a significant price, so it’s easily one of the best ways to use your Velocity points! If you avoid high-taxing ports and choose low surcharge airlines, the cash-co-payment, which covers airline-imposed surcharges and government taxes, is also quite reasonable.
Guide contents
- Velocity Round The World features
- Transferring your Velocity points
- Value assessment
- The main rules
- Planning your itinerary
- Availability
- Searching
- Booking & changes
- Cash co-payment
- Tips
2 Comments. Leave new
Thank you for the very informative RTW guide – most detailed one I’ve read so far! I wonder with Krisflyer’s new website being able to search reward flights on Star Alliance/Partner airlines, we won’t need to use United’s anymore.
Great to hear, Sam.
Star Alliance space is (slowly) being added to SQ/KrisFlyer’s online reward search. However, there are a lot of problems. The United search also has its problems, but it gives you an idea of what’s possible. You can then take that info to the KF Call Centre (beware, you may have to try several operators). But, it’s worth it in the end!