Not Enough Asia Miles
 

I need 30,000 miles for a trip and only have 11,000. Can I redeem as partial fare on Cathay Pacific? I earned these while flying on Cathay in 2009.

for flying, the "cheapest" available is a return trip for somewhere within 600mi (15000 asiamiles needed) or a oneway trip for the same distance (10000asiamiles needed)

Is there anything I can do to redeem this towards a fare from Karachi (KHI) to Bangkok (BKK)?

Buying a ticket is easier.

Sorry to say - your 11K AM basically worth nothing...

I would just keep earning miles till I have enough for a trip I would really want then once I have enough, I would just blow it all. Cheers

Also to add, garykung is right. Even 30,000 might not be enough. 60K might mean something

By the way, welcome to FT, OP.

You are a DM. I won't blame you for thinking this (beside, based on your status, it is absolutely the right to do):D

However, it does not seem like that OP is a CX MPC elite at all.

His miles is expiring next year. He is in fact running out of time...

Unfortunately, Asia Miles does not have a "Pay with Miles & Money" combination, unlike the Delta SkyMiles programme (although even in such a scenario, $100 off for every 10,000 miles - so not exactly value for money).

I have come to the conclusion the only meaningful way of spending CX miles is either gift redemption, or upgrades. Award travel is such a ripped off....

Gift redemptions? Any suggestions?

Upgrade redemptions? Maybe yes on the LHR route, maybe YYR also. Premium availability on SYD/MEL (and I venture to say YVR too) is meaningless.

I think there's a bit of each to their own, as I find award availability meaningful when Aus economy tickets get pricey but someone has to fly...

i've just paid 2040HKD for 2 ppl, HKG-HND-KMJ(Kumamoto)//KMI(Miyazaki)-HND-HKG. that includes 468HKD penalty for my "inability to transfer miles earlier" ie. miles buyup(eek i never thought it'd happen to me!).
if i were to buy non packaged tickets for them (since i'm only paying 1 night out of pocket, it'd be hard to look for packages, esp on CX-JL(dom). JL/NH flights are out of question due to timing), the flight would easily cost me 10000HKD+tax. ($3000 HKG-HND-HKG ticket + $2000 domestic flights)*2

>0.15HKD/mile realization... i'd say its not bad for Y!
given that i dont think OP can top up to 30000 for a japan trip this might be a pointless suggestion

Last year I saved three friends A$925 each (HK$6,586 @ HK$7.12/A$ x 3) (excl tax) by redeeming 135,000 AMs. Yes I had to pay one US$100 redemption list clearing fee after.

But still $0.14/mile redemption. Given they're all miles from credit card spending, great!

at least you didnt "sell" them those miles!

I didn't sell the miles, but I sold the tix for "friendship price" of HK$0.1/mile (A$632) each.

Having (finally) gotten around to use my hundreds of thousands of AA miles, the ease and the low-cost, from that perspective I have been totally disillusioned from CX "mileage award" ticket which they pretty much still ask you to pay 40% of airfare.....