Originally Posted by
ABC Traveler
This made me think about returning to CX for the following reasons: 1) Chinese airlines miles expired after one year. They force you to use it on a yearly basis. I like to save them for family travel redemptions where I can fly my whole family with me in J class, but by making it annual, it's impossible for I have a big family. 2) As for redeeming points, forget it, most of the times the dates are blacked out or no availability. [
Originally Posted by
boybi
CX points don't expire as long as there's activity in your account.
Originally Posted by
littlevoices
- Your Asiamiles now never expire, and CX does a good job now of making increased availability for CX flights for Asiamile members vs other oneworld schemes, you will see more availability than with BA Avios for example. I have also enjoyed the perk of being able to upgrade at the airport to First with miles instantly (obviously needs some caveats and there aren't many routes)
- Plus, perhaps a good thing as it was recent, the miles cost of CX flights has been devalued relatively recently so should be stable for a bit
- However, unlike BA you aren't going to get a guaranteed minimum number of seats on a flight from AM. But if you are booking for example a trip to Beijing in 4 months time, at least from HKG, there will be plenty of business class seats for the whole family.
- Diamond does get extra availability online in some instances, but nobody seems to know exactly what that looks like
Is this to be combined with Cathay (RDM) miles from credit cards as well?
Because at 1,100-3,500 AM per TPE-HKG-PVG Y, 6,000-7,000 AM per TPE-HKG-PVG J, how many R/T to long haul J redemption from BIS (and worse, for family)?
Depending on RDM thru BIS as early modern FT history as fax check-in and reconfirming flights 72 hours before travel.