Hi, the only way would be to transfer your Velocity points to her and then to her Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer account. There’s no guarantee the upgrade will be provided, however. You should be able to see on SIA’s website how many points you’d need. Good luck!

My mum is flying via Singapore Airlines to Sri Lanka from Sydney and I was wondering if it was possible to upgrade her to business class using my Velocity Reward Points?

Many thanks!

VA makes sense since the points won’t expire (unlike SIA KrisFlyer miles, which only last 36 months).

I have purchased a couple of business class tickets on Singapore Airlines from Melbourne to London return. I’d like to know where is best to credit these points, given I am Australia-based but I do travel to/from Europe (though not as frequently as previously; probably just once/year or so these days).
Is it best to book these to VA given I’m Aus-based, or to Singapore Airlines, or to someone else like Air France (where I used to have status, and quite like flying on them)?

Any pointers here?
(One wrinkle is that we’ve already flown a leg with the tickets showing my VA FF number, but perhaps I can change the FF program to which I assign them?)

Thank you.

Hi Clare, you can only use Velocity Points to upgrade on Virgin flights, not partner airline flights. You used to be able to transfer Velocity Points to Singapore Airlines to use them to upgrade a SQ booking, but that’s no longer available.
If you want to use Velocity Points to fly overseas with a partner airline, it has to be a reward flight booking (not an upgrade), which you can do via the Velocity website.

No if it’s a reward booking you can’t earn points in any FF program.

I think you’d need to transfer your VFF points to KrisFlyer, but before you do that check with Singapore Air that your ticket is eligible for an upgrade.