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Jul 18, 2012 | 8:49 pm

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Originally Posted by ChrisLi

Sorry but you are wrong at least for my extended family. We do 75% of all our flying with CX / KA (well for me 100%). For tour group there's less control on which airline you fly, but most of them advertise the airline they are flying with a particular group so there is a factor in there.

There are other great airline out there in Hong Kong but your blanket statement is simply not true. Ask American Express and Citibank on how many hundred thousand of CX co-branded card you will have a basic idea on how many Hong Kong people actually holds MPC membership, even it is Green Member.

BTW I fail to see someone that doesn't live in Hong Kong, and doesn't fly mainly on Cathay Pacific to comment about Hong Kong and CX.

You can disagree if you want. But a blanket statement of "HK people fly a lot on CX/KA and many have MPC status" without any data backing it up is just the same. Most of my friends who live and grow up in HK does not even know what AM or MPC is. Not everyone is as obsess with FFPs or airlines as FTers are.