Originally Posted by
pichalite
New to the points game. Want to use Amex miles for a J in SFO-HKG-HYD. Waitlisted for Nov 10 22:50 outbound CX893/CX649 and Nov 27 01:45 HYD-HKG-SFO inbound CX678/CX870. What are my chances for getting this confirmed and is there a way to increase the chances? Already spoke to Asia miles couple of times they could not do much to clear to confirmation except extending my ticketing deadline to Nov 7.
No doubt someone will post the expert flyer #s for seat sales shortly.
However, more conceptually (both now or any other time), be willing to break up the sectors. Aka look for SFO to HKG separately from HKG to HYD. It will help your chances further if you're willing to pay cash for one of the imbedded round trips (SFO HKG and HKG HYD). I presume the SFO sectors in biz are more important to you than the HYD sectors. Of course this breaking up method is a less efficient way to use miles but just throwing it out there. You could also add a stopover in HKG and that would give you some additional flexibility for award flights.
Although flights are limited to/from HYD, CX runs 3 daily flights to SFO. So be willing to move to a "less convenient" SFO timing if it's more open than the ones you originally booked to wait list. Ex HKG the SFO flights are CX870 (early afternoon departure), CX892 (early evening departure), and CX872 (midnight). Ex SFO the flights are CX879 (noontime), and CX893/873 (both midnight/latenight).