Originally Posted by
CanucksHKG
$6291.57 - $4882.57 = $1409 difference between W and I fare.
Then another $650 to "gift" these Asia Miles....at a $50 difference you might as well straight up buy the I fare. That way you wouldn't have to waitlist forever for the upgrade award to clear....AND you'll be earning 1.25X J mileages.
USD $59 vs. 1088 miles
Sorry I don't understand this. At here:
https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/acco...ices/giftmiles
You clearly can just buy up to 20k miles for yourself. If I do, that 20k miles will go into my account. If I had 20k miles before, now I have 40k miles. Then, I can go and get myself a round trip SFO-HKG upgrade for 30k miles, or 20k miles x 2 if I do them separately.
Either way, how will Cathay know that the 40k miles now I have actually come from my purchase miles?
By the way, your calculation was a bit off. My ticket is an R ticket which I paid $2400 round trip. $2400 + $1300 (round trip both upgrades with purchased miles) = $3700. This is still far cheaper than a J class which is at least $6,000. Of course I understand I can't buy more than 20k miles at a time, but I am just talking about a pure cost perspective.