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Hello Everyone,

My parents are traveling from Toronto to Hong Kong this coming November for their anniversary. I wanted to treat them to business class for their flight since they have never flown business before. I have a little over 200,000 Alaska Mileage Plan miles, which should be enough for a round trip Toronto to Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific. However, when I use the BA Avios award search, there is absolutely no availability within 2 weeks of their departure date (which can be flexible).

Does anyone have any recommendations? I never thought award space would be so scarce in business class on this route.

Any feedback/help would be greatly appreciated.

Warm Regards

CX has reduced business class availability, but – at least for myself with Asia Miles – I have always gotten lucky with waitlisting. Booking 4 months out for me means at least one confirmed flight 3 months out. This often even works on shorter intervals (am flying to FRA in July – waitlisted on June 3rd, was confirmed last week).
Might be a problem with Alaska though. On Asiamiles I find outright availability for 2*U for either 7-22nd, 12-22nd or 13th-22nd. Hope that helps.

[QUOTE=”affordableplatinum, post: 32705, member: 2594″]CX has reduced business class availability, but – at least for myself with Asia Miles – I have always gotten lucky with waitlisting. Booking 4 months out for me means at least one confirmed flight 3 months out. This often even works on shorter intervals (am flying to FRA in July – waitlisted on June 3rd, was confirmed last week).
Might be a problem with Alaska though. On Asiamiles I find outright availability for 2*U for either 7-22nd, 12-22nd or 13th-22nd. Hope that helps.[/QUOTE]
Oops – my bad. These are routed via LHR. So YYZ-LHR on BA and then LHR-HKG on CX. I’d still vastly prefer this over 15h in Y, though 🙂