Originally Posted by Cathay Dragon 666

Wow, I just saw an ad from US to China round-trip at less than $600?!?!?! Cathay must be really desperate to fill their seats now. My colleagues have always complain about how they were forced to pay a mid-range price for Y tickets because they want to maintain GO and DM. However, after the new system they realized they can only earn SL, so they either give up any hope to make higher tier and simply buy the cheapest fare, or they give up Cathay all together and seek better postures elsewhere.

The biggest irony is Cathay is losing C flyers as well. Cathay thinks it was a good idea to cut expenses by not cutting staff (now is too little too late), but rather cut everything their C flyers hold dear: catering, quality of on-board services, phone services, reduced elite benefits, etc. They have successfully ran away a bunch of C flyers that sought to seek better pastures elsewhere too.

So now Cathay is hanging on to dear life by offering $500+ roundtrip tickets to USA? Amazing.