Originally Posted by
Rain187
thanks but normally when will they release the seat and does my status in MPC help?
i already got one hkg to bkk confirm weeks ago and still waiting for the bkk to hkg (the outbound and inbound loading seems the same) and still have to book on some flight in between... but it's quite uncertain now .. just hope I can get it and plan my trip further
Gold no. Gold is "front of the queue for waitlist" - what MPO claims is true .
But no seats are fed into the queue before (especially for public holidays like 22/5) the T-4 deadline expires and then let it be a free for all (so you compete with people with BA miles, AA miles, AS miles, CA Pheonixmiles and others)).
Your need to plan your holiday is no concern of CX. They already have your miles. In fact, they'd hope you'd start looking at AM first, get desperate, and then go buy CX tickets for $$$ without checking out competitors or leaving things too late.
To beat their redemption ticket racket you need to be as flexible as YVR uncle in post #631 above (it's a commute for him, he's self employed and has houses on both ends). But CX is racking up the constipation level so high these days that even he's getting beaten by CX.