How To Redeem Cathay Pacific Asia Miles For Best Value - Cathay Pacific

How To Redeem Cathay Pacific Asia Miles For Best Value

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:28:57 +0000

Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific is regarded as one of the world’s best airline brands, and offers a great experience in both first class and business class, along with amazing lounges in Hong Kong and at some outstations.

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Richard — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:19:59 +0000

Hi Ben. You have repeated in several articles over the past months and years that CX allows stopovers on round-trip awards. It has been pointed out to you on many occasions that there is a significant limitation to this which makes this claim somewhat misleading. On any round-trip award (which can have a maximum of 4 sectors) the stopover must be the turnaround point. That is to say, you cannot ticket a transfer as a stopover. As a result, there is effectively no stopover allowed on round trips since ticketing two one-ways would achieve the same outcome and at the same cost. This is covered in sections 7c and 7d in the Flight Awards Redemption - General Conditions. One additional area you might have covered is the strategic use of mixed cabin redemptions, where booking and then skipping the second sector of a one-way can still result in significant savings due to the pro-rating of the required miles.

globetrotter — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 13:15:08 +0000

@pstm91: I had such a hard time finding premium seats from NRT-LAX/ YVR last month. I finally booked China Airlines in August. It was such a pleasant surprise and a joyful flight.

Andrew — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 08:01:12 +0000

I didn’t do a a full stopover but I did do 22 hours in Doha.

pstm91 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 04:35:09 +0000

I meant to add, while I had to call to book this, CX's agents were excellent. My date changed and they were able to amend it quickly, and they ended up holding the two tickets for me for over a week. Never waited more than 3 minutes for them to answer and the calls were quick and easy.

pstm91 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 04:33:08 +0000

Going to Japan in October and I've been monitoring for award availability for months now. Ideally we'd be on JAL or ANA with a nonstop, but the award space (J or F) is just not there and this is not a trip where I have the luxury of trying to book it last minute (or even ~2 weeks out). Needing 2 seats also makes it more difficult. I finally found 2 first class seats on CX, JFK-HKG-HND. While the devaluation in October hurts, I caved because 1) it's the only premium space I can find, and 2) honestly, 160k for first class seats on both segments plus a stopover didn't feel like a horrendous deal. Yes, it's quite a bit more expensive than it would have been just a few months ago, but not terrible. United is charging 200k per ticket for Polaris one-way, nonstop to Japan... Fees were about $240 per ticket. Now - how to return from Japan...?

Jim Hlavacek — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 01:34:41 +0000

I found an amazing redemption with Asia Miles from Auckland to Adelaide on Qatar Airlines in business class for 40,000 miles and $50. The plane had Q suites! 4 hour flight. Wonderful.

Krivokrasov — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:36:57 +0000

In my experience, Cathay has always charged fuel surcharges and they've been pretty high. Looks like they just reduced the cost some, but they still have them, so you may want to update that part of the post. I also just did a test booking which confirms this. https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_HK/prepare-trip/travel-advisories/fuel-surcharge-updates.html

Sergio — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:52:30 +0000

Andrew were you able to do a stopover on those flights? We you looking for each leg individually? Thank you.

Mike S — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:49:24 +0000

My experience contradicts your opening assertion on availability. I’m a long time member of AA and CX/AM, emerald in both. I get much better availability on CX flights on AA, and for lower cost. Flying CX Business class next week from nrt to hkg using AA, nothing available on CX/AM. Same for hkg to Hkt this coming summer. While still better than AA, service on CX is on the way down, it is becoming a low cost Chinese carrier.