How exactly does CX Waitlist work for awards?
May 13, 2018 | 9:32 pm
#706
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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)
May 13, 2018 | 9:36 pm
#707
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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.
May 13, 2018 | 9:57 pm
#708
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Hong Kong
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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
May 13, 2018 | 11:07 pm
#709
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May 14, 2018 | 12:25 am
#710
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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
May 14, 2018 | 1:18 am
#711
Join Date: Feb 2009
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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!
May 14, 2018 | 5:32 am
#712
Join Date: Jul 2005
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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?
May 14, 2018 | 6:09 am
#713
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Cx: Burn miles? tough. We love foreigners, cos we can. Mainlander or otherwise.
May 14, 2018 | 3:25 pm
#714
Join Date: Jul 2005
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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
May 14, 2018 | 7:08 pm
#715
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so long as the "secretary" has member's dob/phone number/address/passport country/name of one member of redemption list
Last edited by percysmith; May 15, 2018 at 12:24 pm
May 14, 2018 | 8:51 pm
#716
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ok but we never gave asiamiles the passport number, will it still work
May 15, 2018 | 10:39 am
#717
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yes https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...ideo-clip.html
so long as the "secretary" has member's dob/phone number/address/passport number/name of one member of redemption list
May 15, 2018 | 12:24 pm
#718
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Sorry
Passport country, not number
Passport country, not number
May 15, 2018 | 8:20 pm
#719
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May 21, 2018 | 7:16 pm
#720
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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...
Thanks in advance for any guidance...