Cathay Pacific (CX) Award Redemption, Booking and Availability (2024)

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Mar 18, 2024, 12:27 pm

#31

kyushuman

Join Date: Sep 2003

Location: MSP

Programs: DL PlatMM, BA and Alaska Emerald, HHonors DIA, Accor, Marriott Titanium, IHG Plat Amb, UA Silver, AA

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Originally Posted by CathayMVP

Odd, you should be able to pull up all CX reservations booked via Alaska and select seats from there. I have booked a few Cathay flights over the last few months and all seats were picked directly on the Cathay website.

I would try one more time!

Just tried again, a week after I booked the 2 tickets in the same reservation:
For my (OWEmerald) seat, it says: "Online seat selection is not available. Please contact your booking agent for further assistance."
For my non-status travel companion in the same booking, it says "seat assignment will be available when online check-in opens"

Apr 15, 2024, 12:44 pm

#32

BA Humbug

formerly mattking2000

Join Date: Nov 2012

Location: DXB

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Reading the 2023 Wiki, am I understanding correctly that North America -- HKG -- DXB with a stopover in HKG is no longer allowed ?

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For instance, Australia-Europe/Middle East/Asia outside of HKG will be two awards (breaking at HKG).

Apr 16, 2024, 8:50 am

#33

kyushuman

Join Date: Sep 2003

Location: MSP

Programs: DL PlatMM, BA and Alaska Emerald, HHonors DIA, Accor, Marriott Titanium, IHG Plat Amb, UA Silver, AA

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Originally Posted by kyushuman

I was able to call and get the available seats, even though I couldn't do anything online. Got 40AB which is a nice bulkhead on the A350. Was welcomed by 2 separate FAs as OWE, nice enough flight and worth it for 30K AS miles each for one-way HKG-ORD! HKG First Class Lounge (The Pier) was top-notch, one of the best in the world (15-min massage, fantastic food menu at the sit-down restaurant, and not very crowded).

Apr 19, 2024, 12:03 pm

#34

wiffle

Join Date: May 2005

Programs: Marriott Plat

Posts: 31

Seen this discussed in the past with varied perspectives, but wanted to see if there are any recent experiences with an award ticket on CX booked through Alaska that doesn't include the passenger's middle name. It didn't populate when I called up the res on the CX site. Didn't think much of it until I stumbled across old posts about the middle name issue. Never something I've worried about on other airlines, but I didn't want to inadvertently mess up my first go-round on CX ...

Apr 24, 2024, 7:00 pm

#35

Happy

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Join Date: Jul 2003

Location: Florida

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Originally Posted by wiffle

Not an issue at all. AS told me the secured passenger profile has your middle name which would be transmitted to CX.
We flew CX round trip last Sept/Oct - no middle names on tickets. CX NEVER asked for it at check in.

Apr 25, 2024, 1:45 pm

#36

eponymous_coward

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BA Humbug

Reading the 2023 Wiki, am I understanding correctly that North America -- HKG -- DXB with a stopover in HKG is no longer allowed ?

Rules completely changed with the new award chart (that wiki is completely outdated and should not be used) but North America - HKG DXB is not "For instance, Australia-Europe/Middle East/Asia outside of HKG will be two awards (breaking at HKG)", since, well, Australia isn't North America last I checked.

It was always allowed (used it a number of times) because stopovers in HKG were allowed for NA awards.

Basically the new award chart means you should be able to get up to a two week stopover in HKG for NA--HKG-DXB or AU/NZ-HKG-DXB, AS allows an en-route stopover of that length or less in the carrier hub for any award like this. Of course you will pay some considerably higher mileage these days.

Last edited by eponymous_coward; Apr 25, 2024 at 1:52 pm