Changing FFP# [2025]
 

Hi,

On the back of the recent BA announcement, I have decided it is time to move to CX and try to make DM.

Is it possible to use my BA OWE benefits up until the lounge / boarding and swap last minute so I can start to credit flights to CX?

appreciate it!

Hello and welcome over. I was shocked when I saw the announcement earlier. I'm sure many of us here have abandoned plans to move over.

Yes, you can do the switch until the last minute.

great thanks! I will try to get a match to SL to start the climb up to DM :p

What's the situation with BAEC?

Spent based. £20K p.a. for OWE. Aka Please f*** off

also not including taxes and fees !! Would be ~25-30k by the sounds of it?

even SL/OWS is hard for a leisure traveller, 7.5k GBP excluding taxes and fees

I see. Thanks.

OK, so today's challenge is to work out the cheapest way of maintaining CX DM (let's for a moment ignore the fact that getting there requires rather more). Is it really significantly less than HK$200,000?

Potentially by my numbers - one would need to spend ~30k GBP /300k HKD (including taxes) to maintain BA Gold / OWE.

6-7 round trips to Milan in J would net you 1200 SC, which is roughly 200-250k HKD? If you nest that trip within a few multi-cities ex-PEK/PVG/TPE I think you could make DM for less?

Yes for outports. No for ex-HKG.

From what i've seen, cheapest and quickest way to achieve DM with CX would be 9-10 trips from TPE/ICN via HKG to BKK/SIN/KUL/CGK in J. Roughly 6-8K HKD per ticket.

Ah, yes, OK. TPE-CGK is 140 status points in discount J and costs about HK$6300. So you'd need to do that 15 times from Green to get to Diamond at a cost of about HK$100K/GBP10K. And 9 times at a cost of ~HK$60K/GBP6K to maintain it.

As noted, much easier/cheaper for people based around Asia rather than in HKG.

I'd say ICN would be slightly better as you'd get 35 points from ICN-HKG as opposed to 25 from TPE-HKG.

The best possible way, out of the options I have suggested would be

ICN-BKK (via HKG)
BKK-SIN
SIN-ICN (via HKG)

This would get 175 Points.

https://www.google.com/travel/flight...QkE9PRICCAAiAA

Yes.

Lounge Access with different FFN
 

I am wondering if I need to have my sapphire FFN on my boarding pass to access Cathay lounges, or if I can just show a different FF card for access. For example, AA Flagship lounges allow me to have one FFN on the reservation, and to show a different FF card, but Alaska requires the Sapphire FFN to be on the reservation. Thank you!