Singapore Airlines and Planning Ahead—for a Short-Notice Booking

Long-term planning… The expression goes down so easily, is so reassuring.

In the travel world, long-term planning is the first commandment. “Plan ahead or else” is pretty much how most think about booking First and Business Class, especially when trying to use miles.

Most have been taught that to get the best fares one must book far in advance, and the airlines have taken advantage of that training by imposing increasingly longer advance-purchase requirements on published fares: 150-days out is now the standard for many discounted Business Class fares to Europe, 50- to 60-day advance to Asia, and up to 99 days to South American destinations.