Upcoming Changes to MPC
Mar 11, 2025 | 10:03 pm
#241
Join Date: Mar 2025
Posts: 17
Admittance to J lounge is a significant advantage of CX SL indeed. If this privilege were to be removed, there would be little reason to prefer CX when other carriers offer more competitive rates.
Of course, we are just a tiny minor fraction of CX's business. Perhaps we really are not loyal enough, but these changes would be quite disappointing.
Mar 12, 2025 | 3:10 am
#242
Join Date: Mar 2024
Posts: 248
If CX's goal is to restrict access to its lounges as much as possible, I don't think they would have a co-branded credit card in HK that allows even CX GREEN members who fly ECONOMY (on CX metal) to use their J & (even) F lounges. And, yet, they do! And this program was only launched within the last few years (post Covid), not something launched a long time ago that they are looking to cancel soon.
Mar 12, 2025 | 3:34 am
#243
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If CX's goal is to restrict access to its lounges as much as possible, I don't think they would have a co-branded credit card in HK that allows even CX GREEN members who fly ECONOMY (on CX metal) to use their J & (even) F lounges. And, yet, they do! And this program was only launched within the last few years (post Covid), not something launched a long time ago that they are looking to cancel soon.
Mar 12, 2025 | 3:45 am
#244
Moderator: Cathay Pacific
Join Date: Jan 2024
Programs: CX DM-
Posts: 1,302
If CX's goal is to restrict access to its lounges as much as possible, I don't think they would have a co-branded credit card in HK that allows even CX GREEN members who fly ECONOMY (on CX metal) to use their J & (even) F lounges. And, yet, they do! And this program was only launched within the last few years (post Covid), not something launched a long time ago that they are looking to cancel soon.
Mar 12, 2025 | 3:49 am
#245
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It doesn't appear to be unlimited access. Just a limited number of visits. My OWE status gives me unlimited access as long as I fly OW.
Mar 12, 2025 | 3:51 am
#246
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Mar 12, 2025 | 4:00 am
#247
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It's that bad now? I haven't been to CX J at HKG since I became an OWE. I just go to the F lounges. Haven't noticed any crowding during my visits to the Pier. Maybe I got lucky!
Mar 12, 2025 | 4:39 am
#248
Join Date: Aug 2019
Posts: 283
Judging by the name of Diamond and Diamond plus, It simply makes very little sense CX will devalue diamond to OWS. It would have been called Gold plus, rather than Diamond on a 5-tier system.
For me, Diamond plus sounds like OWE-equivalent with additional written benefits, so ppl will still use their status and collect miles on MPC after passing the 1200 mark or other milestones (eg. 1800).
For me, Diamond plus sounds like OWE-equivalent with additional written benefits, so ppl will still use their status and collect miles on MPC after passing the 1200 mark or other milestones (eg. 1800).
Mar 12, 2025 | 4:46 am
#249
Moderator: Cathay Pacific
Join Date: Jan 2024
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ATM only CX metal counts for DMP. The rumoured number was 500K HKD, including tax and fees. I'm sure there are more qualified folks here to comment on that. I'm just a normal person that CX is trying to evict from the F lounges.
Mar 12, 2025 | 5:15 am
#251
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: HKG
Programs: CX DM
Posts: 34
I recall someone mentioned earlier that 2 HKG-TPE round trips in J class per month could make DMP? (Sorry - couldn't find from this very long chain...)
Mar 12, 2025 | 5:16 am
#252
Join Date: Oct 2023
Posts: 635
I think Solitaire PPS is 50k SGD which is about 300k HKD so DMP is almost twice as steep.
Mar 12, 2025 | 6:27 am
#254
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: HKG, EXT, AGP
Programs: CX Gold (OW Sapphire), APEC
Posts: 172
They are crunching the numbers now, but yes, the goal is they are trying to find a way to reduce the bottom 5-10% of GO members and come up with a new system that drops them down to SL. It's two objectives: higher fare flyers will be rewarded to higher tiers more easily; lower-fare flyers will find it harder to attain premium tiers. If you are struggling to make GO now, and don't see an increase of premium flying in the future, I would start working out a plan B.
Mar 12, 2025 | 7:04 am
#255
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: HKG, EXT, AGP
Programs: CX Gold (OW Sapphire), APEC
Posts: 172
I am not a frequent flyer, but genuinely enjoy leisure travel. My family and I travel four to five times a year, primarily with CX, allowing us to reach SL.
Admittance to J lounge is a significant advantage of CX SL indeed. If this privilege were to be removed, there would be little reason to prefer CX when other carriers offer more competitive rates.
Of course, we are just a tiny minor fraction of CX's business. Perhaps we really are not loyal enough, but these changes would be quite disappointing.
Admittance to J lounge is a significant advantage of CX SL indeed. If this privilege were to be removed, there would be little reason to prefer CX when other carriers offer more competitive rates.
Of course, we are just a tiny minor fraction of CX's business. Perhaps we really are not loyal enough, but these changes would be quite disappointing.