brumbrum

Hi guys. As CX awards are impossible to be bought through the web and I'm currently travelling in Asia with very limited connectivity for long skype calls, I'd ask here. Planning to fly TYO-HKG first April week, could anyone guess the amount of fees for the Y/Y+ award ticket on CX or another airlines? Just thinking if it's better to simply buy the HKexpress ticket for ~100$ of try to use AS miles on something better.
Thanks for any info

skimthetrees

Tax and fees for Y or PE are the same for this route. AS is showing $46-$47 for JAL which is actually lower than what ITAMatrix shows and CX should be similar. I would guess in the $46-$56 range for taxes and fees. If you can get a flight for $100 cash that would be a better use of resources than blowing AS miles plus cash on the ticket.

LRD

Many thanks to you (and skimthetrees) for the advice. I tweeted with the CX team and got 2A on three flights within minutes.

TheSYDTraveller

Memories a bit rusty. I recall that once travel has commenced, no cabin changes are allowed even if you've paid for a higher level award is that correct? e.g. JFK-HKG(F)-JNB(PE) and J opens up later and you would like to change.

osotoc

After a CX scheduling change on HKG-PER moved to 15 Jun 2020, I now had an overnight in HKG. I didn't really want that mainly because I wasn't confident my JFK-HKG in CX F would allow me entry into the Pier/Wing First Class lounges after the overnight, and I really wanted to try them for the first time. I really love the CX Business Class lounges. So, BA, JL, and QF all showed no seats on 14 Jun 2020 JFK-HKG. However, all did show 1 F seat on BOS-HKG which would give me a 9 hour layover in HKG before my 15 Jun, enough time to overdo it in the F lounges. ha! Luckily, AS saw the seat too and easily made the change. Happy to see that all of the main three searching programs agreed, and the AS CSR saw the seat as well. ^

AlexanderK

Looks like CX has dropped ORD as a city with a F cabin configured 777 and moved an A350 to that route. Wonder if it’s permanent due to lack of demand. I need to call AS and be reticketed for my HKG>ORD flight in Sep. it’s a J Award so not a big deal for me but just an observation

percysmith

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...-june-1-a.html

gogogofalcons

I currently have booked an AS award from SJC-LAX-HKG in CX F, but my ultimate destination is SYD (which doesn't have any availability between HKG-SYD). Therefore, I booked a separate CX ticket from HKG-SYD in PE. Can I check in my luggage at SJC and ask the AS agents to check my bag through to SYD even though my flights are on two different tickets? Also, will I have access to the F CX lounges in HKG? Thanks!

flytoeat

Welcome to FT, gogogofalcons! Not a criticism, but wondering why you didn't book the F ticket NA-Australia for 80K and accept the downgrade to PE on the HKG-SYD segment? Then if availability opens up in biz to Australia, it's an easy phone call to upgrade that segment since you redeemed in F. Instead you paid 70K for F NA-Asia plus 25K for PE Asia-Australia, correct? It cost you 15K more miles, and unless you have AS status, it will cost you a change fee, and 5K more miles to upgrade the HKG-SYD if availability opens up in business.

gogogofalcons

Would have booked Y or PE from HKG-SYD but there was nothing open that AS could see

flytoeat

Got it - you booked directly with Asia Miles.

gogogofalcons

Yes, exactly. Any thoughts from my original post regarding baggage and lounge?

eponymous_coward

https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_...dmittance.html

By rule it would appear no, if "single ticketed journey" it means "it's all on a single ticket", but I would guess you could show your F BP and PE BP, and assuming your onward travel is same day (not a case of you arriving in HK in the afternoon or evening and then going to SYD the afternoon or evening next day), you might get F lounge access if they're not excessively checking adherence to the rules.

Or it might be "single ticketed journey" means "your travel is all one journey, no > 24 hour stopovers".

The CX forum probably knows better. Ask there?

skimthetrees

I do not know about AS checking you through. If it were CX then they could do it. I had two separate CX awards SFO-HKG (F using AS miles) and HKG-BKK (J using BA Avios) and the CX check-in agent at SFO was able to link them, check my bag through to BKK, and when I arrived in HKG I had F lounge access, I believe from only scanning the onward J boarding pass (since it was linked in their system somehow).

AK_Blue

Should've quoted gogogofalcons: I currently have booked an AS award from SJC-LAX-HKG in CX F, but my ultimate destination is SYD (which doesn't have any availability between HKG-SYD). Therefore, I booked a separate CX ticket from HKG-SYD in PE. Can I check in my luggage at SJC and ask the AS agents to check my bag through to SYD even though my flights are on two different tickets? Also, will I have access to the F CX lounges in HKG? Thanks!

Just returned from MEL-HKG-SEA via CX on a mileage ticket, and then SEA to ANC on AS as a separate ticket as we couldn't find mileage seats. CX in Melbourne was able to check our bags all the way to ANC, just took a little longer when we first arrived at the airport. We also did not check in with the app or the kiosk, we waited to speak to an agent. So hopefully if it works one direction, it will work the other direction! Just give yourself extra time at SJC I would say.

The only issue we had on our southbound itinerary was that if our layover was over 12 hours in the US, AS would not check our bags through. Since we were in SEA for 17 hours, we had to reclaim bags then recheck. My Australian friends were astonished by this, apparently in other countries airlines are happy to check your bags through even if you have a +12 hr layover. Just a thing that could be an issue.

Also make sure you have your Australian ETA. We were asked in SEA if we had it and needed to pull up the confirmation email for the CX agent.