novacatz

I have a little dream of travelling CX First via points... would be nice to have my annual trip home HKG-SYD in luxury ... makes all the hard work worth it

But then... when I search the CX website booking tool... there is... *0* seats for HKG-SYD.... and I checked for about 2 months on either side of my desired travel date (march 2007).

Oddly, it seems there is some seats for the return SYD-HKG but that is pretty pointless if I can't get the outbound!

Should I shelve my little dream?

CX100Silver

I have a little dream of travelling CX Business via points that redeemped in advance of check-in date... would be nice to have my trip SYD-HKG-SYD with point upgrade...

But then... when I search the CX website booking tool... there is... *0* seats for both SYD-HKG and HKG-SYD... and I checked for about 11months in advance of my desired date and it's still *0*. (at least in J)

Should I forget the upgrade on SYD<->HKG route and try some other Asian routes instead?

Well... It is extremely hard to redeemp Business or First class tickets in advance for CX, unfortunately... Because these premium classes are always packed in low or high seasons. I usually redeemp one-way upgrade at the airport if I really want to. But then, it means I had wasted some miles as return booking save you some points. But the question is can I get a return upgrade confirmed at all? The answer is NO for 99.99999% of the time.

hairpeace

What is your status?

CX100Silver

Silver

Dave Marsh

Just WL on U or Z Class and wait.

CX 139 and 138 seems to be the easiest to get seats on.

TerryK

If you could wait until close to flight date, CX seems to release a lot more F and J seats within 7-10 days of departure. Of course, all flights may not be available and this only works if you could travel on any flight within a date range.

Kagehitokiri

so it doesn't matter what your status is, there is basically NEVER ANY award availability for F?

number_6

What I have heard is that Diamonds will have seats released fairly quickly upon request, so while technically no Z availability for anyone, Diamonds get it a day later much of the time. I guess it goes to yield management who considers some blackout factors but generally grant the request (and don't grant other non-Diamond requests).

Kagehitokiri

good news, thanks.

number_6

Why? Are you Diamond?