Jun 28, 2017, 8:46 pm
Last edit by: eponymous_coward
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.
Routing Rules:
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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Note: Cathay flights cannot be booked using alaskaair.com. Mileage requirements in chart form available on alaskaair.com.
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.
- 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
Anyone with 90 posts and 90 days can edit the wiki. Everyone else if you want something added to the wiki please comment in the thread.
Cathay Pacific (CX) Award Redemption, Booking and Availability – 2017 and Later
Jan 2, 2019, 2:01 am
#3046
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: sometimes, strangely, I find myself at home
Programs: I need to do better in managing my affiliations. Oops, I overshot the runway for status next year.
Posts: 651
Wrong. Queue the whiners who didn't get in on this in time. (Including me)
Jan 2, 2019, 6:33 am
#3047
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: Oceanic Airlines Gold Elite
Posts: 20,387
Jan 2, 2019, 8:01 am
#3048
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: NY, NY
Posts: 695
Ditto. A while back I had booked a CX F from MLE to JFK for the end of Feb using AS miles and have been monitoring F availability for the travel date hoping I could get on an earlier flight. However, the cabins on all those flights went from F5/F4 over the weekend to F1/F0 today. Guess I know who will be in the cabin with me lol
Jan 2, 2019, 8:40 am
#3049
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: BOS/ORH
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 18,323
Still F5 on my award flight in May. I picked the correct flight as others the same day are almost sold out in F. hopefully they don't decide to degrade the experience due to this.
Jan 2, 2019, 10:01 am
#3050
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: Oceanic Airlines Gold Elite
Posts: 20,387
Ditto. A while back I had booked a CX F from MLE to JFK for the end of Feb using AS miles and have been monitoring F availability for the travel date hoping I could get on an earlier flight. However, the cabins on all those flights went from F5/F4 over the weekend to F1/F0 today. Guess I know who will be in the cabin with me lol
Jan 2, 2019, 11:06 am
#3051
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: NY, NY
Posts: 695
Yeah, I already have a RTW set up for this summer, and for winter 2019 I am undecided but leaning towards Mexico or Hawaii. Vietnam could have worked I guess but for whatever reason I just went “nah”. Good for those who picked it up (though I am LOL’ing at the folks who are finding out Vietnam isn’t going to let them do immediate turns).
Jan 2, 2019, 11:19 am
#3052
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Seattle
Programs: AS
Posts: 2,293
Gary Leff (view from the wing) is reporting that these mistake fares are being honored.
Jan 2, 2019, 11:48 am
#3053
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Pacific Wonderland
Programs: ʙᴏɴᴠo̱ʏ Au, IHG Au, HH Dia, Nexus, Pilot FlyingJ Preferred
Posts: 5,336
Jan 2, 2019, 11:54 am
#3054
Join Date: Apr 2017
Programs: AS 100k, DL PM, New Sagaya
Posts: 1,291
CX tweeted about honoring them:
Jan 2, 2019, 12:00 pm
#3055
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 10,904
But of course, more seats sold means less award availability, so there is an effect.
Jan 2, 2019, 12:10 pm
#3056
Ambassador, Hong Kong and Macau
Join Date: May 2009
Location: HKG
Programs: Non-top tier Asia Miles member
Posts: 19,800
I am surprised at the amount of NA travellers' interest in this fare. I would've thought it would've been on our side of the pond who'd buy this.
Jan 2, 2019, 3:26 pm
#3057
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: SNA
Programs: AA EXP, Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Globalist, IHG Plat, Marriott Gold, National EE
Posts: 1,204
My wife and I were fortunate enough to be the only people in CX F (we had the whole cabin to ourselves) last trip, but after a few hours, I just wanted to fast-forward to being at home. I understand where people are coming from, since I was also once young and inexperienced, but man.
Jan 2, 2019, 4:24 pm
#3058
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 590
Just looked that up and it does look amazing. I went to Vietnam for a few weeks in January and didn't even know about that. Damn!
Jan 2, 2019, 6:22 pm
#3059
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: BOS/ORH
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 18,323
Seriously. The idea of paying money to fly anywhere (on any product) as the sole end of travel has no appeal to me.
My wife and I were fortunate enough to be the only people in CX F (we had the whole cabin to ourselves) last trip, but after a few hours, I just wanted to fast-forward to being at home. I understand where people are coming from, since I was also once young and inexperienced, but man.
My wife and I were fortunate enough to be the only people in CX F (we had the whole cabin to ourselves) last trip, but after a few hours, I just wanted to fast-forward to being at home. I understand where people are coming from, since I was also once young and inexperienced, but man.
I know a lot of people buy AS points to fly CX. I wonder how much of an effect this will have on mileage sales when CX pulls award availability?
Jan 2, 2019, 6:31 pm
#3060
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: NCL and LBA
Programs: BD*G, BAGold, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat
Posts: 3,269
Don't worry about missing it... I looked it up when I went last month as I was equally as amazed but at $3000pp and limited dates I thought I would give it a miss!