I know its totally OT to the OP, but its convenient in Mainland - all airlines except two are on the Travelsky GDS and any agent can see all the tickets on all those airlines by keying in the passport/ID number.

they can see everything. they just making your life hard to discourage ex tpe ticket loophole for.HK residents. In.fact they even ensure there is 2hr gap between landing and departure otherwise they wont issuue the return boarding pass as its not a legal connection. Funny they cherry pick a connectIng rule to apply on 2 tickets.

Which is also pretty convenient, considering how if you put your passport number into Umetrip (owned by them too) everything from the past populates on its own.

I'm not exactly sure if they can. I had the same situation before at CGK, SIN, and KUL. There's not so much reason for us to backtrack compared to people ex-HKG.

Which is also pretty convenient, considering how if you put your passport number into Umetrip (owned by them too) everything from the past populates on its own.

I'm not exactly sure if they can. I had the same situation before at CGK, SIN, and KUL. There's not so much reason for us to backtrack compared to people ex-HKG.

Plus CX agents don't have to bother most of the time. But they have to ask for return tickets for TPE/KHH because of Taiwan NIA's own demands.

I'm going to second this, get yourself a flight to Tokyo and then return as the JAL lounges are arguably better than the Cathay ones, and far more interesting (you can even go via Tapei if you really wish) - and I don't consider there too much difference between NRT and HND.

My personal advice if you really want to "maximise" your experience book onto the 1am CX524 flight to Tokyo (NRT), then you'd get almost 20 hours in the lounge without any strict questions (beyond your sanity for arriving so early), and you could do the same on return by booking the last flight of the night out of NRT (CX501, 9.40pm) and get another 15 hours or so there. At this point you'd probably gladly skip a lounge again at any chance, which is a better way to deal with flying so much.

Then, as I fully agree with the others, you shouldn't try to leave without flying: Nobody at the airport is going to judge you for arriving at opening times (5.30am?), but there are a few things to consider:

• Presuming you continue to fly this much as you have achieved Diamond, rather than another One World Emerald (OWE) status, presumably you will be spending a lot of time in these HKG lounges anyway - so enjoy this special moment, but it will become common
• After the breakfast service is done, there is only so much alcohol and food one can really put into a single body, and you don't get a breakfast,lunch,dinner,evening set-up from CX - just breakfast and "after"
• You really should use your status by getting to enjoy the on-board-perks, the flights can be fun: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...ion-worth.html
• Even more so, you'd be better bringing a +1 guest, to the lounges to keep you company - yes you can chat to the Cathay staff, but you can hardly expect an in-depth conversation

Au contraire ! Is there not perhaps a positive correlation between the former (at least the alcohol bit), and (ones own impression of) the depth of the latter??

That said, whether one remains DM much longer after engaging in such liquid "in-depth" conversations with CX staff, is another question maybe the OP can return to us with.

This seems too gluttonous unless the airport has a pool or gym to exercise in.

Yes, love that app too, it lets you check in (for domestic) and view the seat maps right up to take off and sends notificaons and lets you view the take off queue. Amadeus bookings can also be added, but you cant do much with them there. There is no english version as far as I know.

For TPE I was asked for a return ticket by CI @HKG desk and I bought one of those fully refundable tickets on trip.com and cancelled it later (I just did not know when I wanted to return).