Cathay Pacific Asia Miles - Rate Cathay Pacific Asia Miles

We are going to review Cathay Pacific Asia Miles in the July issue of InsideFlyer magazine and would like your input.

If you would like to participate, please post your response in the thread with the pros and cons of membership in Asia Miles and grade the program from A to F (A being the highest grade). You can include a plus or minus with the rating.

You can also respond directly to me at dmankell@insideflyer.com.
Thank you!

Are you reviewing Asia Miles or Marco Polo Club??

I dislike Asiamiles and I will never fly CX again unless necessary.

Why? Perhaps, I dont fly CX enough and not good at managing my asia miles.
These miles expire in 3 years regardless of whether I have flown more within that time. Because the miles was going to expire, I used it to redeem a ticket
HKG - KIX - CTS - HKG for 30,000 miles.
The trip cant be booked online, and it has to be booked via an agent (as far as I try to book online). The wait was practically forever, and one has to call after people in HK sleep for the phone to be picked up.
The result was a fee of over 500 HKD for paying for tax + fee.

The identical trip is booked on aeroplan. It costs only 20000 miles and only <12 USD. what a big discrepency. what is the point of flying CX?

We are reviewing Asia Miles.

The trip cant be booked online, and it has to be booked via an agent (as far as I try to book online). The wait was practically forever, and one has to call after people in HK sleep for the phone to be picked up.
The result was a fee of over 500 HKD for paying for tax + fee.

The identical trip is booked on aeroplan. It costs only 20000 miles and only <12 USD. what a big discrepency. what is the point of flying CX?

I had similar experience just last week. CX never responded to my missing mile requests (sent twice). Last week I redeemed award travel NRT-PVG-NRT, had to call HKG to finish the process. Additonal fee for booking non-CX flight. Agent said ticket was issued, and two weeks later, no confirmation received. No response for email inquiries.

General experience over the years is that CX is going downslope. Most of its promotional flights (which are still more expensive than other airlines) are not eligible for OneWorld milage (such as if you are an AA, JAL member).

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The miles needed to redeem tickets are just high when compared to other airlines program. And I think it really does confuse people who are new to the system of why CX has two program and which one is actually for what use.

Ways to earn miles on flights are getting smaller and smaller, as mentioned above. Many flights do not earn miles at all on CX's own ones! I mean, you cannot earn miles on alliance's discount flight, fair enough. But even its own one cannot earn?:confused:

I have no negative experiences of Asia Miles or Marco Polo Club so far.

On the contrary, MPC resolved one complicated issue resulting from travel agency errors very quickly. I have also saved money on OneWorld partner airline redemption tickets as taxes when redeening with CX were less than a third compared to the partners own FF program.

Especially like the service desk at HKG airport. Very rare to have such a service.

It is strange to review Asia Miles without reviewing Marco Polo Club. While both are separate, they go hand in hand.

If the OP wants to get a proper picture of CX's loyalty programme, they need to consider MPC. Asia Miles without MPC is a nothing programme.

However, I would disagree with JALlover that Asia Miles requires more miles than other airlines to redeem tickets. Compare with SQ, for example. Ever try to redeem a J or F class flight? You need to pay DOUBLE MILES for anything with new seating, which is now most of their regional and long haul flights. Only some of the short haul flights are not affected and have old seats.

However, I would disagree with JALlover that Asia Miles requires more miles than other airlines to redeem tickets. Compare with SQ, for example. Ever try to redeem a J or F class flight? You need to pay DOUBLE MILES for anything with new seating, which is now most of their regional and long haul flights. Only some of the short haul flights are not affected and have old seats.

i am a low class person and i dont fly F or J unless i get op-up or comp. it did cost 50% more miles to redeem a ticket for my trip. unless u dont consider air canada is an airline. then 30000 miles vs 20000 miles seems to be a big issue (not to mention the fee tag on top of it.)

the miles are also harder to earn now, discount economy is only 50% of the miles flown. i am advising everyone i know not to fly CX if they care about air miles for award redemption. the deal is simply terrible.

the miles are also harder to earn now, discount economy is only 50% of the miles flown. i am advising everyone i know not to fly CX if they care about air miles for award redemption. the deal is simply terrible.

YBHKMLV classes on CX/KA all earn 100% mileage. Can you please clarify in which classes you earn only 50% mileage?

It is strange to review Asia Miles without reviewing Marco Polo Club. While both are separate, they go hand in hand.

If the OP wants to get a proper picture of CX's loyalty programme, they need to consider MPC. Asia Miles without MPC is a nothing programme.

However, I would disagree with JALlover that Asia Miles requires more miles than other airlines to redeem tickets. Compare with SQ, for example. Ever try to redeem a J or F class flight? You need to pay DOUBLE MILES for anything with new seating, which is now most of their regional and long haul flights. Only some of the short haul flights are not affected and have old seats.

Well, I mean comparing to the the FF programs in OW. And SQ always think they are high on the top, so they just demand quite alot, which I am not surprise. I hardly fly with SQ anyway

YBHKMLV classes on CX/KA all earn 100% mileage. Can you please clarify in which classes you earn only 50% mileage?

I thought there arent any 50% for CX/KA flights if you use AM or MPC, but yes if you use other FFP

I thought there arent any 50% for CX/KA flights if you use AM or MPC, but yes if you use other FFP

I just looked at the AA site and it appears that I can't get any Advantage miles for my L class flight on CX. Take a look at http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?p=/AAdvantage/partners/airlines/cathayPacific.jsp.

I just looked at the AA site and it appears that I can't get any Advantage miles for my L class flight on CX. Take a look at http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?p=/AAdvantage/partners/airlines/cathayPacific.jsp.

taht is true. and i suppose that is AA unwilling to give you the miles? if you fly BA you only get 25% for some subclass and 50% for some