Singapore Airlines’ KrisFlyer program is admittedly clever: Award prices are increased at very regular intervals, but only by a relatively small amount each time.

So again on November 01, when most award prices (including with airline partners) will be increased by 5-10%. Some increases go up to 20%, while many Singapore Airlines flights in Economy Class are even reduced by around 5%.

However, this tactic should not disguise the fact that the program is unfortunately becoming less and less attractive, gradually but surely. And, as in all mileage-based programs, such price increases cannot be justified at all – at least not if you actually collect your miles with flights and not with credit cards. Due to the increased flight prices, one has to spend significantly more today to accrue the same number of miles. Therefore, there is absolutely no need to increase the cost of reward flights themselves.

Also new to the program is that the budget subsidiary Scoot has introduced a table for full award flights. So if you can really make do with very little, you can now fly round trip from Europe to Australia for just 73,000 miles (and even only 61,000 miles to Perth).