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Cathay Award Guide Using Alaska Airlines Miles

Note: Cathay flights cannot be booked using alaskaair.com. Mileage requirements in chart form available on alaskaair.com.

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Request your Partner Award reservation on Cathay Pacific by calling Alaska Airlines Reservations at 1-800-252-7522 (TTY: Dial 711 for Relay Services) 5:00 a.m. - Midnight (PT), daily.

Routing Rules:

If it's not on the award chart, it's not allowed. For example EUROPE is To/From HKG only.
Stopover are only allowed on any CX award for North America awards as destination or origin. For instance: intra-Asia awards do not get a stopover. It must be a North America->Somewhere or Somewhere->North America award to qualify for a stopover.
The only awards that do not break at HKG are intra-Asia or North American ones. For instance, Australia-Europe/Middle East/Asia outside of HKG will be two awards (breaking at HKG). The AS award chart can be misleading about this and give you the impression you can fly an award like Australia/Europe-ICN, but the chart for these award types will show "Hong Kong".
One stop-over allowed on one way award. You can build open jaw and other advanced routings by booking multiple one way awards. Please note change fee rule below.
Allegedly stop-over only in Hong Kong, but some have posted success in other enroute cities such as YVR or SEA.
As of 5 June 2018 changes/cancellations made to a booking will incur a $125 fee which is waived for MVPG/MVPG75K. Bookings made prior to 5 June will be allowed one complimentary change or cancellation for up to 60 days prior to date of travel.
Awards can be booked 330 days in advance.
Cathay and Alaska (or an Alaska flight operated by SkyWest/Horizon on behalf of Alaska) are the only airlines allowed on a Cathay award. No other partner airlines may be used on a single award (e.g. American, JAL, Emirates).

North American Gateway Cities:

Western
Vancouver
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle (Spring 2019)

Eastern (Can not be used if traveling to west coast)
Boston
Chicago
New York (JFK & EWR)
Toronto
Washington

Award Chart Links*:

Asia
Australia
Europe
India/Middle East
North America

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Cathay Pacific (CX) Award Redemption, Booking and Availability – 2017 and Later

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Nov 2, 2017, 8:30 am

#1351

kdavis527

Join Date: Apr 2015

Location: ATL

Programs: DL PM

Posts: 53

I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to the contributors of this thread - it has a wealth of knowledge that is so useful. I will be putting these tips and tricks to use! Currently have ORD-HKG (stopover)-KIX booked at the end of May, 1F and 1J, but I'll be stalking like crazy to get that second F for the ORD-HKG segment

Nov 2, 2017, 9:08 am

#1352

Flying for Fun

Join Date: Mar 2017

Location: British Columbia

Programs: AS MVPG100K, Marriott Marriott Titanium Elite, Hilton Gold

Posts: 7,263

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Originally Posted by kdavis527

Congratulations! Hope your booking process was as easy as mine.

James

Nov 2, 2017, 10:15 am

#1353

Larch2017

Join Date: Dec 2016

Posts: 14

I was looking for 2J on SFO-HKG around end of Nov on the newly started A350 flights. It occurs to me that CX is not releasing any A350 J seats at all for Nov/Dec period at all. That's why I am looking for anyone who were able to get J seats in this new A350 routes.

Thanks for your sharing of experience.

Nov 2, 2017, 10:20 am

#1354

jamienbaker

Join Date: Jul 2004

Posts: 4,541

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larch2017

Not exactly sure what datapoints you are looking for. But I was able to redeem 3 J awards on the EWRHKG A359 for next August...and then changed the departure date by about a week. So it's clear at least six awards were released on that route.

Booked the mini-cabin in hopes the footwell is a bit larger since it's part of the bulkhead.

Jamie

Nov 2, 2017, 10:21 am

#1355

jamienbaker

Join Date: Jul 2004

Posts: 4,541

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larch2017

Also, end of Nov isn't within the close-in booking window. I wouldn't expect any J awards this early in the first place.

Nov 2, 2017, 4:21 pm

#1356

G-CIVC

Join Date: Oct 2009

Location: ORD [formerly] + HKG

Programs: CX Diamond, AA exExPlat, BAEC exGold, HH Diamond, Hyatt Globalist, Starriott Titanium, GE

Posts: 2,966

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamienbaker

Booked the mini-cabin in hopes the footwell is a bit larger since it's part of the bulkhead.

More like the opposite.

Nov 2, 2017, 4:23 pm

#1357

jamienbaker

Join Date: Jul 2004

Posts: 4,541

Quote:

Originally Posted by G-CIVC

More like the opposite.

Really? I’m so accustomed to that, I just assumed. Anything you recommend? It’s actually for my wife and two teenage sons.

Nov 3, 2017, 10:07 pm

#1358

davistev

Join Date: Apr 1999

Location: Philippines

Programs: CebGo 5J, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Alaska 100K

Posts: 4,696

Strange. Yesterday I was denied the following award:
SEA-SFO (Y)
SFO-HKG (J)
HKG-Adelaide (PE)

because the agent said Cathay Awards do not allow mixed Cabin bookings. Is this true?

Nov 3, 2017, 10:11 pm

#1359

jinglish

Join Date: Jul 2015

Location: SEA

Programs: Hilton/Marriott Gold, Accor Silver

Posts: 2,036

Quote:

Originally Posted by davistev

Strange. Yesterday I was denied the following award:
SEA-SFO (Y)
SFO-HKG (J)
HKG-Adelaide (PE)

because the agent said Cathay Awards do not allow mixed Cabin bookings. Is this true?

At least one FTer has been told this before, and it's absolutely false. Hang up and call again.

Nov 3, 2017, 10:25 pm

#1360

davistev

Join Date: Apr 1999

Location: Philippines

Programs: CebGo 5J, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Alaska 100K

Posts: 4,696

Thanks for a quick reply Jinglish. I actually went ahead and confirmed:

SEA-SFO (Y)
SFO-HKG (J)
HKG- Surabaya (J)
and I was just going to jump on a Jetstar to Adelaide from DPS ($150).

So now my question is: Can I make an Award Change without losing the SFO-HKG J flight. I would like to replace the Surabaya flight with the Adelaide PE flight and pay 5,000 miles more.

Nov 4, 2017, 8:22 am

#1361

Calculon

Join Date: Aug 2013

Programs: Alaska MVP Gold

Posts: 917

Quote:

Originally Posted by davistev

Yes, that should be no problem for them.

Nov 4, 2017, 11:39 am

#1362

CDKing

FlyerTalk Evangelist

Join Date: Dec 2007

Location: BOS/ORH

Programs: AS 75K

Posts: 18,323

Quote:

Originally Posted by davistev

My first ever premium cabin award was CX to DPS to catch flight to OZ. I did air asia one way and jetstar the other. Though that was much shorter flight since i only went to Darwin (where CX doesnt fly). It was quite the adventure going from CX F/J to ULCC Y.

Last edited by CDKing; Nov 5, 2017 at 11:05 am

Nov 4, 2017, 1:24 pm

#1363

gpeso8

Join Date: Jan 2010

Location: CGK/LAX

Programs: KF,JMB, OZ, SPG,AA,UA,AS

Posts: 1,163

Quote:

Originally Posted by davistev

I'm based in Surabaya if you are planning to stay PM me if you want any suggestions.

Nov 6, 2017, 9:16 am

#1364

1011TriStar

Join Date: Nov 2012

Programs: SPG Gold, Aeroplan, Hilton Honors, Le Club Accor Platinum

Posts: 268

First time using Alaskan miles for an award booking. Booked 4 J tickets from BKK to HKG (stopover) and then to YYZ with Cathay Pacific for Aug 2018. Used BA Avíos to check for availability. Agent was very helpful.

Nov 6, 2017, 10:43 am

#1365

charlied77

Join Date: Jul 2016

Posts: 8

Hi all, new to this thread.

Been looking at HKG-LHR in April 2018 F or J. I can see award availability on Ba.com but Alaska agents can't seem to find availability when I call. This has happened on a couple of dates.

Do Avios and Mileage plan have different levels of priority? I'm not sure what's going on