Originally Posted by
xmrbrightside89
I'm planning a trip to Tokyo, and was thinking to fly with CX instead of JAL.
Am also still thinking whether I should buy the ticket in economy (which works out at £350) or take out a reward flight via BAEC (I really wanted to try one way in business), but use as least points as possible by paying more taxes, and eventually buying the rest of points. As I need to save as many avios points possible to use in a future 2-4-1
Just wondering if anybody can give me an idea which planes are used, and if I take a reward flight in business class, which is the flight where they use the reverse herringbone seats? Is it worth spending it for the experience?
I saw that buying a business class flight is very expensive, so that was out of the question, what are the chance of upgrades?
Let us start with using Avios both ways in economy class with CX -- this works out to be around 20,000 Avios plus £50 of taxes and fess. Given the cash ticket costs £350 your Avios will worth 1.5p, which is not too bad. I can not price mixed class for cash ticket between HKG-TYO on CX website but I can tell you you are using the Avios points well either way.
The part pay with Avios should work very well With mixed class redemption you can still pay 15000 Avios plus £172.50. I will say this is a very good price. Just think it in the way that you are paying more taxes and fees this time!
I don't really look into which flight number offers long-haul config. but rather I look for clues on the BA redemption page. If I see premium economy available and it is a B777 then I know for certain that you will get a flat bed for the 5 hours flight back to Hong Kong. This trick should work for A333s too.