Originally Posted by
nickvora
For instance in your case, I would sign up as an Asia Miles member and login to the cathay pacific website and click on redeem miles - that would give me a fairly good availability calendar with which I can narrow down my decisions.
Exactly. And even better, you get availability by flight/cabin on CX. YYZ-HKG usually has pretty good availability in F, but not terribly far out. Browse around there for a bit and you'll begin to get a feel for when they release seats. If you're traveling in F, definitely go for CX. In J, I'd opt for AA. Also, remember to check other cities for availability, connections are often pretty good. So, for AA, you might want to look at JFK/DFW/LAX-NRT-HKG as well. For CX, JFK/YYZ/LAX/SFO-HKG.