Yes but fuel surcharge is peanuts compared to (A$4,400 for one-way D fare - A$450 trading cost of miles of the standard J award I eventually cleared for mother)

Is anyone with insight able to guesstimate how likely J seats are to open up on CX246 CPH-HKG on 11 June? I am currently in PEY waitlisted for J.

Hard to say. EF #s posted below.

Working for you is PEY seems to be relatively busy (based on seatmap), but they're still selling the full complement of PEY seats perhaps in anticipation of op-up. J class on the seat map looks so-so, not too busy but busy enough that I class is reduced. I'm not an expert here but I feel like they'd way rather sell PEY and then take your miles to move you to J.

Unfortunately, the general vibe of the board is that mileage upgrade tix are in a different bucket than straight award. Sometimes they're available when regular awards aren't, and other times IIRC they're NOT available when straight awards are.

CX 246 0 CPH
06/11/18 2:10 PM HKG
06/12/18 6:30 AM 359
M,W,F
NA / NA J9 C9 D7 I2 W9 R9 E9 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N9 Q9 O9

4 for the flight

jul 20CX 846HKG 6:45p → JFK 10:45p
F5 A5 J9 C9 D9 I9 W9 R9 E9 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S0 N0 Q0 O0aug2CX 831JFK 2:50p → HKG 6:50p
F4 A4 J9 C9 D9 I9 W9 R9 E9 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N9 Q9 O0
i would.keep waitlist J. its still early mate. but dont buy Y fare, you can always buy econony as last minute if you need to fly. data shows.wide open but its 3mth out so they wont
proactively release a seat knowing its summer.

why dont you buy ex-china J? plenty of cheap options being discussed

I looked at ex-China J on those dates - about 4K USD. I'm tempted but would prefer to burn some miles and avoid the positioning flight. Is pricing better than that starting from somewhere other than the usual suspects? If so, send me a DM!

I want to book a flight on cathay from lax to tokyo while stopping in hkg for a few days. is it possible to be waitlisted for the round trip from lax to hkg first then call in once those flight are confirm and add the extra legs?

For Cathay pacific can I call on behalf o my wife or will they only speak to account holder? My wife doesn't have time to call asia miles so I was thinking of calling on her behalf since she has all the miles

ok but we never gave asiamiles the passport number, will it still work

When did they start to ask for passport number? I cannot even remember mine... I have more than one passports and they expire every 10 years.

Sorry
Passport country, not number

What does this mean? Will 4 seats open up on this flight? I'm a noob when it comes to waitlisting.

I have searched but not found the answer to this: my son is ticketed BOS-HKG R/T in October in J. I booked these tickets for him at T-360, but he has since moved to NY and would rather get on either the JFK or EWR flights if possible. Both are waitlist only. Can I waitlist those segments in his existing reservation even though the origin will be different from the currently ticketed flight? Or do I have to create a completely separate itinerary with two waitlisted segments and hope that both clear, then redeposit the original award?

Thanks in advance for any guidance...