Originally Posted by verquinzetorix

I travel to Hong Kong on business fairly often. My company pays for my business class flight. For an upcoming trip, I would like to use some of my points for a family member to join me, in business class. I found out from Cathay Pacific that I need to find out first if there is an award seat available in business class for the companion redemption and put it on hold and then book/pay for my business class flight and then redeem for the companion flight. This won't work since my business trip will be on specific dates with little flexibility. I was thinking of booking an economy flight for my family member (the same flight as my company paid business class flight for me) and then use my points to upgrade my family member up to business class. Would this work? Anyone have any advice on this?