Cathay vs Qatar from DC to Phuket

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Cathay vs Qatar from DC to Phuket

by Ben Schlappig Guest February 4, 2019, 9:06 pm

Cathay vs Qatar from DC to Phuket

Anonymous Guest
February 4, 2019, 9:06 pm

Happy Monday!

Curious to know your thoughts. I’m planning a trip to HKT for my birthday and will be using AAdvantage miles. Should I take Cathay or Qatar?

Options are either Cathay (IAD-HKG-HKT) or Qatar (IAD-DOH-HKT).

Cathay flight from IAD leaves at a strange time 1AM I think? Which makes me think I won’t have as good as experience trying to enjoy business class. 🙂 The flight time is around 15 hours to HKG followed by a 3.5 hour flight to HKT.

Now the Qatar flight would be in a QSuite, the flight leaves at a decent time in the evening; however flight time is only around 12 hours to DOH. Then another 6 hour flight to HKT.

I’m really interested in the great reviews about the QSuite, but not really loving the flight times.
rickyw Community Ambassador
February 5, 2019, 8:25 am

I’d take QSuites for sure. 12 hours is more than enough time to enjoy, in my opinion. That’s 6ish hours of sleep, plus 2 meals plus relaxing/movies/etc.
Cal New Member
February 7, 2019, 1:32 pm

Keep in mind that by flying QR on AA points, it would price as two awards: IAD-DOH = 70K and then DOH-HKT = 40K for a 110K total.

On CX it would just be 70K from IAD-HKG-HKT. At 110K ,you could look for a connector to JFK or BOS and fly first into HKG on Cathay,

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