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Old Sep 4, 2018, 7:08 pm
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Post your trip dates and itinerary here:

DPS-HKG - 09/6/2018 - MCI777
HKG-SFO - 09/7/2018 - MCI777 ( just flew SFO-HKG-DPS a few days ago)

LAX-BKK - 10/07/2018 - EVA777
BKK-LAX - 10/22/2018 - EVA777

BKK-LAX - 10/10/2018 - jerrflyer

LAX-BKK - 10/15/2018 - cmdsea
BKK-LAX - 04/04/2019 - cmdsea

SFO-PVG - 10/24/2018 - 1k650
DPS-SFO - 11/14/2018 - 1k650

LAX-DPS - 10/27/2018 - FoxFlyer
DPS-LAX - 11/01/2018 - FoxFlyer

BKK-LAX - 11/01/2018 - EmailKid

LAX-BKK - 11/01/2018 - fijaircan
BKK-LAX - 11/11/2018 - fijaircan

LAX-BKK - 11/17/2018 - EVA777
BKK-LAX - 11/27/2018 - EVA777

LAX-PVG - 01/10/2019 - George84
PVG-LAX - 01/14/2019 - George84

LAX-PVG - 01/17/2019 - SGan317
PVG-LAX - 01/21/2019 - SGan317

SFO-BKK 01/07/19- frank10b
BKK-SFO 01/16/19 - frank10b

SFO-BKK 01/09/2019 - IluvSQ
BKK-SFO 01/25/2019 - IluvSQ

LAX-PVG 01/19/2019 - vincewy
PVG-LAX 01/26/2019 - vincewy

LAX-HKG 2/2/19 - genesq
HKG-LAX 2/17/19 - genesq

LAX-DPS 2/13/19 - maverikbc
DPS-LAX 3/4/19 - maverikbc

LAX-BKK 2/14/19 - chiefnwa
BKK-LAX 2/24/19 - chiefnwa

SFO-BKK 2/17/19 - bretmd
BKK-SFO 2/24/19 - bretmd

SFO-PVG - 2/22/2019 - gpen1827
PVG-SFO - 3/4/2019 - gpen1827

LAX-BKK 2/22/2019 MCI777
BKK-LAX 2/27/2019 MCI777

SFO-SGN - 02/25/2019 - Flyer89
SGN-LAX - 03/02/2019 - Flyer89

SFO-BKK - 2/27/2019 - 1k650
DPS-SFO - 3/20/2019 - 1k650

LAX-BKK - 03/01/2019 - sydneyguy1234
BKK-LAX - 03/04/2019 - sydneyguy1234

LAX-BKK - 03/02/2019 - firemandan9
BKK-LAX - 03/10/2019 - firemandan9

LAX-BKK - 03/02/2019 - EVA777
BKK-LAX - 03/17/2019 - EVA777

SFO-PVG - 03/17/2019 - omghaxcode
PVG-SFO - 03/24/2019 - omghaxcode

LAX-PVG - 03/23/2019 - legalalien, Ml007, Mileage Lover
PVG-LAX - 03/30/2019 - legalalien, Ml007

PVG-LAX 03/31/2019 Mileage Lover

LAX-HKG 09/22/2018 atiger29

LAX-HKG 11/14/2018 Tafflyer
HKG-PVG 11/18/2018 Tafflyer
PVG-LAX 04/02/2019 Tafflyer
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 8:07 am
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Originally Posted by DavidDTW
Curious as to what everyone is doing with the miles earned on these flights? How many are you getting? Using on HX or transferring elsewhere?
My plan is a Fortune Wings status match from Delta, and then use the resulting miles on Alaska domestically (US).

I'm not quite in the time period yet to request the match.
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 2:38 pm
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Originally Posted by josephstern
My plan is a Fortune Wings status match from Delta, and then use the resulting miles on Alaska domestically (US).

I'm not quite in the time period yet to request the match.
Can you use Fortune Wings points to buy Alaska flights? I did not know that
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 2:43 pm
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Can you use Fortune Wings points to buy Alaska flights? I did not know that
https://www.hainanairlines.com/HUPor...E=GB&PAGE=SFRE
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 4:07 pm
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I wonder if they will let you do regional/international upgrades from Economy Class (X/ V/ N/ Q/ U) to Business if the flight > 11,001 km at 11000 points.
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 5:01 pm
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Originally Posted by hsumh316
I wonder if they will let you do regional/international upgrades from Economy Class (X/ V/ N/ Q/ U) to Business if the flight > 11,001 km at 11000 points.
Pretty sure its a typo and should be 110,000 not 11,000 :-)
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 1:19 am
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Thank you for this update. If I read it correctly, you moved your outbound sfo-hkg leg a day earlier and kept the existing hkg-sgn leg. You were accommodated in business to Hong Kong, but helped the airline out by downgrading your hkg-sgn leg to economy even though it was still the original date/flight as they needed the seat for some reason?

Furthermore, they had no reason to help you other than you asked nicely. Your flight wasn't cancelled like some of the others, correct?

Originally Posted by fullcollapseca
Update. After an hr on the phone, Expedia was able to change my flight to an earlier date. I wanted to spend a day in Hong Kong so I accepted the Economy flight to SGN in exchange. My recommendation, request for an Extra Leg room Seat at the same time of your request in Economy. Still don't know if they will offer lounge access with an Economy ticket.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 10:06 am
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Originally Posted by fullcollapseca
Still waiting on a callback or e-mail. Will update.
Originally Posted by johndoe123
Thank you for this update. If I read it correctly, you moved your outbound sfo-hkg leg a day earlier and kept the existing hkg-sgn leg. You were accommodated in business to Hong Kong, but helped the airline out by downgrading your hkg-sgn leg to economy even though it was still the original date/flight as they needed the seat for some reason?

Furthermore, they had no reason to help you other than you asked nicely. Your flight wasn't cancelled like some of the others, correct?
Correct. So I only made a request to move my outbound SFO-HKG 1 day earlier, still in business.
Did not change my HKG-SGN leg that was downgraded from Business to Economy, not a date change.
Expedia was given similar options as stated above for those affected by the class change. They had to call in to Hong Kong Airlines to get the approval code to enter in their system to make the change that I requested.

If one of your segments had a date,time, or class change, I'm fairly certain you can push for a date change within reason.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 10:57 am
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Thanks. The difference for me is I have not been subject to a class downgrade, it sounds like you were. Im going to bangkok and my negotiating power may be smaller.
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Old Oct 27, 2018, 4:37 am
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SFO to hkg was pretty good with better food than Cathay but uneven service. IPass doesn’t work - it can find the network but doesn’t connect. Pricing is 100mb plus 5mb bonus for $22.99 usd. Pretty slow too.
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Old Oct 27, 2018, 5:23 am
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Originally Posted by olouie
SFO to hkg was pretty good with better food than Cathay but uneven service. IPass doesn’t work - it can find the network but doesn’t connect. Pricing is 100mb plus 5mb bonus for $22.99 usd. Pretty slow too.
Strange iPass didn't work. HK Airlines is on the list.
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Old Oct 27, 2018, 5:51 am
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Originally Posted by Global321
Strange iPass didn't work. HK Airlines is on the list.
I am guessing HKA changed something. It’s still Panasonic but the purchase options are different - no more 500mb pass and the signup screen seems new. It will connect to WiFi but iPass cannot connect.
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Old Oct 27, 2018, 9:39 am
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Yeah - that's too bad about iPass. The pricing otherwise is pretty atrocious. From the days when emails had no images, that might have been usable. Today, that would be gone in a flash.

My first iPhone plan after the AT&T unlimited as a 200 MB/month, I think, for comparison. But that was maybe eight years ago.

Now, browsing on a computer, 105 MB would just not go far. Just background apps catching up would eat a lot of that.
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Old Oct 27, 2018, 3:00 pm
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Originally Posted by justwingingit
I spent 3 hours last night in a queue for live chat (number 142!) and the agent came on and refused to assign seats, said call 48 hours before. Then i read the threads here and everyone said they were calling/writing and getting seats. I tried again on live chat a bit ago. Took about 20 minutes and she got me seats for 3 of my 4 legs and said the system timed out.
I am starting to believe this is real, supposed to leave sept 5 LAX > HK --BKK and back

fingers and eyeballs crossed.
was the fare honored?
Expedia called and said my flight may have been rescheduled or cancelled and they’re looking into it.
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Old Oct 27, 2018, 3:02 pm
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Old Oct 27, 2018, 4:12 pm
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Originally Posted by josephstern
Yeah - that's too bad about iPass. The pricing otherwise is pretty atrocious. From the days when emails had no images, that might have been usable. Today, that would be gone in a flash.

My first iPhone plan after the AT&T unlimited as a 200 MB/month, I think, for comparison. But that was maybe eight years ago.

Now, browsing on a computer, 105 MB would just not go far. Just background apps catching up would eat a lot of that.
Silver lining - it’s so slow that you might not want to use 105mb. Took around 5-10 minutes to download a simple webpage with a few drawings which was around 2 MB’s I ended up using it all over the 14 hour flight but it craps out a lot too and still charges you for that data.
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