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Dec 25, 2016 | 4:01 am

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kamchatsky

Join Date: Feb 2006

Location: Sydney, Australia

Posts: 1,632

Quote:

Originally Posted by cxfan1960

SYD-HND direct is 4855 miles. If you are to fly direct in J, it should require 45000 miles (<5000 miles range).

SYD-HKG-HND is 4592+1803 = 6395 miles (since there are two flights not having same flight numbers even on the same day), and will require 70000 miles for J redemption.

Hi cxfan1960, I thought that is the case as well. However as mentioned in the first post, I saw the option of SYD-HKG-HND on CX J at 45K miles. But I could not go to next stage without the points.

Essentially I am trying to work out whether it is a minor glitch of the Asia Miles booking system, so that once the route is selected, the correct miles requirements (i.e. 70K miles) is shown, or it is a major glitch that lets you book weird and wonderful routings at 45K miles. I could not test this without transferring some points across to my account, so I want to see if anyone can try and prove my theory.

I have even seen HKG-DOH-SYD on QR J, marked as 45k miles in the search results. Hence I am interested.

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