KrisFlyer Spontaneous Escapes deals for May 2025 announced

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Singapore Airlines has launched its monthly Spontaneous Escapes promotion for May 2025, offering discounts of 30% on Economy, Premium Economy, and Business Class award bookings to and from a selection of destinations across its network.

This month’s offer feels like a step down from last month’s generous 40% discount – a one-off special to celebrate KrisFlyer reaching 10 million members. However, don’t forget that the airline has promised a special deal in August 2025 (for September travel), and with it marking SG60, surely a 60% discount is coming our way.

Anyway, back to this month’s offer – as usual, to take advantage of the 30% savings you’ll need to secure your tickets within the next two weeks, though the sooner the better is a good plan, since award seats at these discounted rates are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

If any of the destinations on this month’s list catch your eye and you’re able to make firm travel plans for May, it’s definitely worth seizing the opportunity to book one of these seats at the discounted rate.

Some of the best deals worth considering this month are:

• Singapore to or from Cairns for 47,950 miles in Business Class or 21,350 miles in Economy Class
• Singapore to or from Beijing for 30,100 miles in Business Class or 15,050 miles in Economy Class
• Singapore to or from Malé for 30,100 miles in Business Class or 14,000 miles in Economy Class
• Singapore to or from London, Paris or Brussels for 29,400 miles in Economy Class
• Singapore to San Francisco (one-way) for 29,400 miles in Economy Class
• Singapore to or from Perth for 28,350 miles in Business Class or 15,050 miles in Economy Class
• Singapore to or from Hong Kong for 23,800 miles in Business Class or 11,550 miles in Economy Class
• Singapore to or from Dubai or Johannesburg for 20,300 miles in Economy Class
• Singapore to or from Bangkok or Phuket for 16,800 miles in Business Class or 9,450 miles in Economy Class
• Singapore to or from Bali or Jakarta for 14,700 miles in Business Class or 5,950 miles in Economy Class

Some routes are affected by a range of blackout dates, which we clearly show in our detailed tables below.

If you do find a route of interest, you’ll need to book these ‘Promo’ awards over the next two weeks – between 15th April 2025 and 30th April 2025 – for travel in May 2025, but remember there’s no flexibility and in most cases no refunds are allowed.

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Terms and conditions

Here are the terms and conditions for the Spontaneous Escapes promotion.

May 2025 offer

• A 30% discount on saver award redemptions for travel to and/or from selected destinations in May 2025.
• Redeem online at singaporeair.com or via the SingaporeAir mobile app between 15th April 2025 and 30th April 2025.
• Flights are non-refundable and non-changeable.
• Blackout dates apply on some routes (see the full list below for details).
• Book one-way legs if the discount only applies on one of the two (or more) flights you need. You cannot book one-way Promo (Spontaneous Escapes) and one-way Saver / Advantage awards in the same booking.
• Travel must be completed by 31st May 2025.
• Book as many redemptions as you like at Spontaneous Escapes rates – it’s not capped.
• You cannot waitlist for Promo (Spontaneous Escapes) redemptions.
• For any flights cancelled by SIA, or if a flight was removed from a Spontaneous Escapes booking due to COVID-19 and governmental regulatory changes, the miles redeemed in the unused portion of the ticket will be refunded, with no additional fees charged.
• Requests to change any booking details, or to retain the ticket for future use, will not be granted.

In a nutshell – be sure to have firm travel plans if you’re locking in a Spontaneous Escapes deal.

Business Class Deals

As always, we’re the only site showing the aircraft type and the Business Class seat product planned for these routes flight number by flight number, to help you choose better and travel smarter on your discounted Spontaneous Escapes getaway.

Here are the five different SIA Business Class seat type abbreviations, for reference:

Some of our readers even choose their preferred route based on the aircraft or seat type, especially those looking to try one of the carrier’s newer products for the first time!

Here are the discounts on offer for travel in Business Class this month.

South East Asia

North Asia

West Asia & Africa

Southwest Pacific

USA

Premium Economy Class Deals

Here are the discounts on offer for travel in Premium Economy, including the aircraft types used for each eligible route and flight number.

North Asia

Economy Class Deals

Here are the discounts on offer for travel in Economy Class.

We have also included the aircraft types used for each eligible route and flight number, so you can choose based on your preference where multiple flights are available.

South East Asia

North Asia

West Asia & Africa

Southwest Pacific

Europe

USA

Book the ‘Promo’ award category

Singapore Airlines offers the Spontaneous Escapes deals under its “Promo” award category, which you’ll see alongside the usual Saver and Advantage award rates on applicable flights.

If the Promo award rate is not shown for your preferred flight, even though it is listed as part of the offer, that unfortunately means there is no availability remaining at the Spontaneous Escapes rate (but do check back later, like Saver and Advantage award space – it can come and go).

The “Promo” award category also means Spontaneous Escapes award capacity can be loaded as a subset of the Saver award space. This allows you to continue to book at Saver rates (if you prefer the flexibility, for example), or allows the airline to stop offering Spontaneous Escapes rates on a particular flight, while not necessarily having to remove the Saver rate at the same time, like they did under the pre-pandemic system.

This also opens up the possibility of securing discounted bookings for larger groups.

For example, if three of you are traveling but only two Promo (Spontaneous Escapes) award seats are available for your desired flight, you can potentially redeem the two available Promo seats and then one Saver seat on a separate booking.

This way, you can still effectively enjoy a 20% overall mileage discount across your group, compared to booking three Saver awards.

What if you already booked?

If you have already redeemed your miles on a flight that has now become eligible for the Spontaneous Escapes offer, unfortunately there’s no simple way to change it and pay the reduced miles rate.

You will have to book again at the Spontaneous Escapes rate, then cancel the existing booking and pay the miles redeposit fee (don’t do it the other way round, in case the Spontaneous Escapes Promo space disappears in the meantime!).

This will require you to have sufficient miles in your account to immediately lock in the Spontaneous Escapes rate.

If you need the miles from the original booking in order to make the Spontaneous Escapes one due to an insufficient balance, be very careful!

Since you will first have to cancel the original booking, you are now at the mercy of the Spontaneous Escapes space remaining available on the flight, and it can sometimes take a few days for the miles from your original cancelled booking to be re-credited to your account.

Full details

For full details of this month’s Spontaneous Escapes offer, including terms and conditions (but sadly not including the aircraft type and seat type details we have provided above!), head over to the KrisFlyer Spontaneous Escapes promo page.

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The regular monthly Spontaneous Escapes deal is back for travel in May 2025, for those who can make short-term travel plans.

Offers this month in Business Class include Singapore to or from Cairns for 47,950 miles, Singapore to or from Bangkok for 16,800 miles and Singapore to or from Bali for 14,700 miles.

In Economy Class, you can also redeem to or from several European cities for 29,400 miles.

Check out the full deal here, and do refer to our seat types summary for Business Class in the tables above to pick the aircraft with the best cabin product for your routing.

Remember if you’re unable to secure a return flight at the discounted rates, book two one-way tickets instead. You’ll pay the ‘Promo’ rate one-way and the usual ‘Saver’ rate for the non-discounted sector, but at least the whole itinerary will not be at the usual rate (and a 15% saving is still welcome).

(Cover Photo: Lucas Wunderlich)