A couple of days ago Cathay Pacific hinted that they'd be adding a few new destinations. They ran a beer related contest to encourage people to guess what the cities were, and there was further speculation that the cities started with the letters "B," "C," and "D." My initial guesses were Brussels, Copenhagen, and Dublin.…
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There was speculation that CX would discontinue DUS, PEK and DPS. Any word on that?
I thought one couldnt use Alaska for flights not starting or ending in the US so I am curious how you came upon the 42500 alaska miles for the routes?
They have great introductory economy and premium economy fares as well. Economy is running at ~$585 roundtrip from Hong Kong and premium economy is running at ~$1380 roundtrip for all three routes. Even business class is cheaper than some of their other European routes, at ~$4400 roundtrip (usually they're at the ~$4850 mark).
The routes are decent adds - DUB for EI's eventual entrance into oneworld, BRU for the nascent partnership with LH group. As for CPH, SAS has served it previously, abandoned it for a while, then relaunched as ARN-HKG instead.
When LH upped their MUC-HKG miraculously to A380, I was guessing it was for a 2-fold : (1) give FRA airport a warning shot about being too friendly to Ryanair, and (2) give CX a warning shot not to touch their golden goose.
It seemed to have worked - despite constant rumors on how A359 will enable CX on HKG-MUC, what ended up happening is the non-announcement of MUC and cancellation of DUS (i'm guessing it's a combination of AB's collapse, lack of significant business ties, lacking of tourism-attractiveness of Rhine-Ruhr relative to other parts of Europe, and staying on good terms with LH).
Lol. Who in this earth would associate a city(ies) in USA with beer? Dallas? Hahahahaha...
Wow, surprised about Dublin, given they'll be facing competition from ME3 for Far East business and presumably eating into the connecting flow on their high frequency London services to a degree ...
I guess Aer Lingus will offer some regional connectivity from there though.
Is there anyway to search for this award travel that forces routing through HKG while using AS Mileage Plan miles? We're hoping to book a trip to Berlin (possibly via Brussels) next fall but absolutely loathe BA's Club World (but don't mind their F) and the ridiculously inappropriate surcharges foisted upon award tickets via London. How would one search LAX-BRU but force a stopover or connection in HKG? We can't search CX award space on the Alaska website and searching via BA's or AA's sites would almost certainly never return routing via HKG.
@Mark-I think that is just Emirates that you need to start or stop in USA. I could be wrong.
I think you can't route N.America to Europe via Hong Kong on CX with AS miles. The award chart only shows CX redemption for N.America to Asia / Middle East / Aus NZ
What carrier imposed surcharges on BA Avios? Taxes seem to come to £40ish from CPH, and it's only 75,000 miles in business from there rather than the others.
This is the second post on this topic where James has showcased his great desperation to show a bunch of internet strangers that he is a Very Serious Beer Boy
Ben I am never able to find CX awards on Alaska's website so was the 42,500 miles found on their website or did you call them to find the details? Thanks
@Mark -- you can only fly on the routes they post in the award chart. For some that's only from the USA, but most partnerships have some other options. You can book Europe only for example. They only seem to allow Asia to Europe on CX, it appears. Damn you can't beat 42,500 miles for
biz! https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mileage-plan/use-miles/award-charts
@RD:
Here you go: https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mileage-plan/use-miles/award-charts
Just select origin and destination regions.
@Mark I'm from New Zealand, and I often use Alaska miles to fly return to HK from AKL on Cathay Pacific - a bargain at only 60,000 return. Got 5x return seats for the family in J in Dec/Jan for only $1680 NZD each before taxes/surcharges (based on buying miles at 50% bonus). I was amazed at the availability and so was the Alaska phone rep.
You can only book flights with CX via Alaska on phone, not on their website, but their call centre is great.
CX availability HKG-Europe has totally dried up over the last few months. Does anyone know why? I am looking to fly mid June on the weekend and can't find anything to FRA, ZRH, BRU, AMS. Not even with Asia Miles. Not sure what is happening at CX as I had redeemed HKG-Europe many times with Alaska Miles and am currently also booked on HKG-FRA during Christmas which was available with Alaska Miles (amazingly).
Hi everyone.
How about let say travelling from KUL to Paris/Zurich/Brussels/Amsterdam, do we need to separate this travel into two leg? Asia - Asia & Asia - Eur.
Thank you.