Cathay Pacific Asia Miles - quick turnaround at CGK ?

Part of my RTW is a daytime return trip from Hong Kong to Jakarta. Is it difficult in Jakarta to just get off the CX plane and then reboard. This pair of flights is for the miles only.

If it is 777 to 776, then you have nearly two hours. I think it will be doable.

I did a turnaround in June at CGK with LH for the Star 55,555 promotion. LH had even a tighter 'connection.' http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

After getting out of the plane, I went to the transit desk. They escorted me out of the passport control to the landside checkin area, checked me in and escorted me back to airside. I needed to pay a departure tax. Some people on the same flight went straight to passport control and did check-in themselves and they came back fine. I saw them in a lounge.

All the best.

Why don't you do HKG-DPS? It's further than to CGK.

Best of all, why don't you do a ReturnCheck (a on-ground product of Cathay Pacific). This way, you can get your return boarding pass and all you need to do is go through the TRANSFER counter at CGK and reboard your CX flight to HKG.

The other option is for you to fly to DPS as Guy Betsy pointed out. It is further and the political climate in Bali is better than that of Jakarta.

After all, the decision is yours. We can only make recommendations.

ReturnCheck is availoable to CGK but not DPS it seems. Also the outbound immigration at DPS was a complete nightmare when I was ther around Easter time. All of the airlines were having to search round to find their passengers who had been standing in line for up to an hour and not yet through. It rather spoilt what had otherwise been an excellent break. The fact that outbound immigration is basically redundant anyway makes it even worse.

I forgot to say that I am flying in 1st, so CX 777/776 has 1st class while flights to DPS does not. I hope that the CX staff in HKG will give me my return boarding pass. By the way, how much is the departure tax? Payable in US dollars probably.

There's a currency exchange counter near the check-in. I just went there to get local currency while a return boarding pass was issued. I don't exactly remember how much I paid. Probably around 10USD. It was not high like at LHR or U.S airports.

Decided to bring this topic forward in light of the recent events in Bali. Does this still make sense to do, from a safety point of view. I am not flying this part of my trip until the end of Nov. If I change the routing, do you think there is a possibity that the itinerary change fee may be waived?
Thanks for any insights...

i thot this is a good time to see bali.
just avoid the crowded areas.

but if it's only a turn around int he airport, i guess u r only concerned about hte airport security, which whould have been tightened up considerably by now.

the plus is that you will enjoy a pretty empty flight, and good attention regarding services.