Do you know if Japan (Sapporo/Tokyo) is part of this offer? They say "30 destinations", and CX fly to 51... they don't say which city is part of this offer.

Anyways, it does sound great at first, and I was looking at the rules to see if I or my family members can make good use of this ticket. But I figured this deal is filled with nasty fine prints.

This world pass is very difficult to make a good use of. First of all, 3 of your reservations through next year must be confirmed by the ticketing deadline of December 20th 2001. This sounds rather ridiculous to me, because who can finilize their travel plans so much in advance? And although you can change the reservation at later time, you have to pay nasty penalties. HK$300 for date change per transaction, and HK$1000 for route change per transaction. (in Y class)... Simple math tells me that if any of my schedule screws up, I will end up paying more than buying 3 seperate tickets! (so this is risky business)

Then there is nasty miminum/maximum stay restrictions. For short haul, ticket validity is 2min/7max max, and long haul is 2min/30max days. humm... so this adds lots of restrictions. Overseas student like myself will not be able to make good use of it, because we often stay abroad for the duration of school term. On the other hand, 7 day is too short for family vacation to the regional destination, so once again, this does not work.

Booking class will be "A", "D", and "S" respectively, so it does earn Asiamiles. But with the minimum stay condition, this will not be suitable for a good milege run. My conclusion is that Cathay simply wants to plan ahead for next year in this time of uncertainty, so it wants to fill up some seats in advance. This product might look attractive, but in fact isn't....

PS. If someone has different opinion, I'd love to hear!