Latest Promotion: Vantage Pass is back!
Oct 20, 2019, 7:56 pm
#1
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: PEK, AUS, WAS, HKG
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Latest Promotion: Vantage Pass is back!
I just received the following promotion email from MPC:
Full Details here: Vantage Pass Promotion Page
Doesn't look like very attractive to me. Any comments?
Fly in the superior comfort of Business or Premium Economy to two destinations
Experience more space, additional comfort and enhanced service with Vantage Pass, as you fly Business or Premium Economy Class to two destinations from HKD8,507* all-in.
As a Silver member, you'll have three days of advanced access to the most popular destinations and flight times before Vantage Pass goes on sale to the public on 24 October 2019.
From 21 October to 5 November 2019, you can book your round-trip flights at these exceptional fares:
All-in fares
2 ultra-short
C: HKD8,507* up
PE: N/A
1 medium-haul + 1 long-haul
C: HKD45,130* up
PE: HKD22,032* up
2 long-haul
C: HKD57,049* up
PE: HKD24,009* up
2 medium-haul
1 Business Class + 1 Premium Economy Class: HKD25,905* up
Experience more space, additional comfort and enhanced service with Vantage Pass, as you fly Business or Premium Economy Class to two destinations from HKD8,507* all-in.
As a Silver member, you'll have three days of advanced access to the most popular destinations and flight times before Vantage Pass goes on sale to the public on 24 October 2019.
From 21 October to 5 November 2019, you can book your round-trip flights at these exceptional fares:
All-in fares
2 ultra-short
C: HKD8,507* up
PE: N/A
1 medium-haul + 1 long-haul
C: HKD45,130* up
PE: HKD22,032* up
2 long-haul
C: HKD57,049* up
PE: HKD24,009* up
2 medium-haul
1 Business Class + 1 Premium Economy Class: HKD25,905* up
Doesn't look like very attractive to me. Any comments?
Oct 20, 2019, 8:50 pm
#3
Join Date: Jan 2006
Programs: AAdvantage Asia Miles Air China
Posts: 870
Got to agree does not look attractive, the discount is too low to make the potential costs in case of a need to change an itinerary worth it. Also still more expensive than the competition if one shops around.
I remember the similar promotions CX used to have in the 2000s, which would marry long hauls to a short haul, these where well worth it. These were usually run end of the year/January and were well worth it. Then CX changed the pricing model to make them virtually the same price as buying normally. That quickly killed those promotions. Perhaps it is the same person who killed that came up with this?
I remember the similar promotions CX used to have in the 2000s, which would marry long hauls to a short haul, these where well worth it. These were usually run end of the year/January and were well worth it. Then CX changed the pricing model to make them virtually the same price as buying normally. That quickly killed those promotions. Perhaps it is the same person who killed that came up with this?
Last edited by Nicc HK; Oct 20, 2019 at 8:51 pm Reason: English
Oct 20, 2019, 9:03 pm
#4
Join Date: Sep 2007
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I need to go to Japan and Seoul in the next few weeks so I pored over it. Waste of time from what I can see. Does anyone actually fall for this?
Oct 20, 2019, 9:41 pm
#7
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: SFO/HKG
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Posts: 535
They're getting desperate - scratching and clawing for any pretty pennies. Plus, they have enough stand-by pax to fill up the attractive destinations.
Oct 20, 2019, 9:47 pm
#8
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Oct 20, 2019, 10:44 pm
#9
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: SFO/HKG
Programs: ex-UA 1K, AA EXP, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 535
No, not at all. In generate cash in desperate times, there are three options:
1) discount as much as possible to get cash flow coming in
2) gouge the most profitable or least discerning customers (exactly what the Vantage Pass does)
3) do both
1) discount as much as possible to get cash flow coming in
2) gouge the most profitable or least discerning customers (exactly what the Vantage Pass does)
3) do both
Oct 21, 2019, 3:24 am
#10
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Oct 21, 2019, 3:26 am
#11
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Posts: 870
Enough to encourage CX to repeat.
As was said by Goldfinger in Ian Fleming's book, "First time happenstance, second time coincidence, third time enemy action"
Oct 21, 2019, 8:20 am
#12
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: MP, BR
Posts: 375
Last time I bought the Vantage pass was a few years ago, and I remember they didn't have this "from" caveat.
Oct 21, 2019, 8:14 pm
#13
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: Cathay Lifetime Diamond
Posts: 690
I have just booked 2 long hauls in J (NZ and UK) and saved over HKD18K - about 22% on the best published individual fares.
As I needed to do these trips for business anyway this was a good deal for me.
As I needed to do these trips for business anyway this was a good deal for me.
Oct 21, 2019, 8:42 pm
#14
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Is it though? I am not Silver anymore so I can't check the prices.