Cathay Pacific Asia Miles - Using AsiaMiles for US domestic flight

I recently earned 15000+ Asia Miles and I thought I could use the miles on US domestic flight. From the website, I am very confused about what I need to do.

Basically, I need to fill out an Award Request Form because it is for a US carrier. I was asked who to book for, date, airline, flight number, airports. Then it ask me for credit card information and Submit. I am not comfortable with this at all.

Do you guys use the website to redeem your awards? Is it a manual process? What kind of taxes, fees and other charges will be charged on my credit card?

I don't use that form. If you want to redeem a CX or KA award, just log into AsiaMiles or CX website and go from there. If you want to redeem on AA for a US domestic flight, then call up Asia Miles or the Marco Polo Club if you are a club member.

you should go to www.aa.com and check availability before calling the Marco Polo Club hotline. in my experience, if it's available on aa.com for its own members, you'll be able to get it using Asiamiles.

I recently redeemed miles for AS round trip award (Zone S) and was charged 15,000 miles + approximately US$ 21, which is equivalent to "Security Fee" + "PFC" + "Flight Segment Tax". Not bad redemption IMHO. No fuel surcharges.

When I checked, CX wanted over $200USD for YQ for an AA flight from CLE-ORD-YUL.

Ummm ... I have no idea how they calculated your fuel surcharges, but it sounds too high to me. ITA's fare construction shows that current fuel surcharge (Q) for CLE-ORD-YUL (AA, round trip) is $115.00. Are you sure $200 is all for fuel surcharge? Maybe taxes and fees included? If so, $200 is very close to the amount you have to pay.

Ummm ... I have no idea how they calculated your fuel surcharges, but it sounds too high to me. ITA's fare construction shows that current fuel surcharge (Q) for CLE-ORD-YUL (AA, round trip) is $115.00. Are you sure $200 is all for fuel surcharge? Maybe taxes and fees included? If so, $200 is very close to the amount you have to pay.

I ended up flying with 17,500 AA miles+$50 tax.

With CX it would've been 20K+ ~$240 in YQ+tax. Ridiculous.

I ended up flying with 17,500 AA miles+$50 tax.

With CX it would've been 20K+ ~$240 in YQ+tax. Ridiculous.

I don't know much about CX's program, but I do know that for the AA itineraries I've ticketed with AsiaMiles (all short haul), they've been good or very good values. I went to Canada on AA with AsiaMiles late last year and didn't pay anything close to $240 in taxes. $8x.xx comes to mind... And that was a triangular trip, NYC-US city (stopover for a couple of days)-Canada (for a few days)-NYC. And for 20,000 AsiaMiles. :cool:

AsiaMiles sent me a receipt and the charge was only HK$40 (=US$5.00, Security Charge(=AY)) My redemption was for AS itinerary (two non-stop flights).