Originally Posted by
hayashir
The link I've posted earlier is still not updated, but I found the following offer for Japan:
https://flights.cathaypacific.com/en...sale-2024.html
I hope that's not it, because it's bad.
Cathay members will receive JPY10,000 discount per booking, while non-members will receive JPY5,000 discount. Additionally, members will earn an extra bonus of 5,000 miles!
It's actually worse than that. It's not 10K yen but "up to" 10K yen. The 10K is only for 60K+ tickets. On top of that, there are only 1,000 discounts in total available.
I had a quick look at the ex-U.K. offers but Cathay does this stuff so poorly it may as well stop in my view. The U.K. site currently has headline offers subject to terms and conditions but those are not clearly displayed and that's where the devil is: Cathay never does just a straight discount, for example. From experience, one then needs to plug in specific flight options to see the "discounted" price which often is still uncompetitive. Price-based discounts aren't something Cathay manages or communicates well in general.
As "Black Friday" is an American cultural import in any case, I don't think it' a good fit for Cathay's British operations in any case.