Originally Posted by
SpammersAreScum
I've got AA award seats in J for Mar:
02-03 TPA-DFW-NRT-MNL (AA/JL/JL)
18 SGN-HKG-ORD-TPA. (CX/CX/AA)
Outbound should be ok and would probably cost me a fee to cancel. CX has a waiver for HKG but only through Feb 29.
So I could proceed with booking the hotels and area flights, and keep an eye on whether I'll need to rebook the return, presumably by contacting AA?
But I know finding award J for the new return is going to be darn near impossible. Maybe I should just sit tight on further bookings and hope CX extends its waiver, then shift the trip's dates by a couple months. Which will still probably leave me paying the fee at least on the outbound, and still have the challenge of finding seats.
It should be AA's waiver that applies, since AA issued the ticket. It's possible that the HKG waiver will get extended past 2/29 but who knows at this point.
It's really a question of whether you're comfortable traveling in SE Asia and transiting through HKG on the return. Right now both of those things seem low risk and there aren't any restrictions on HKG transit when returning to the US but things could change.