Originally Posted by G-CIVC

HND swamps NRT because of its proximity and lounges. The FAs are also a lot happier to work on HND route.

As for avios redemption, this is one of the biggest bargains across the whole oneworld network. I usually maximize the avios and money options and sometimes get excellent value of less than $0.01 usd per avios for the copay portion (using HKG based account).

Unfortunately for CX548/549 the catering is done in HKG. But I feel like us here moaning about how bad the catering is is because we fly CX too much; if you seldom do, it'll be okay.