tango_echo

Please ignore this if it's just a generally good background fare, but I found this fare rather handy today when booking my upcoming summer swanning around SE Asia.

As the title suggests, if you're willing to transfer at both LHR and HKG, you can take CX to SE Asia for less than £2,000 return, which isn't too bad for the times in which we live. The HKG-CGK connection, assuming you're allowed into Indonesia, will earn 140 BA tps, making this a potential 680 tp itinerary.

The fare basis is: IR99SEAR / PR99SEAR. There's wide availability for trips departing in May and June.

An example I can see currently is this CGK itinerary:

https://www.google.com/travel/flight...JqM5S3Q5fAwVs7

This doesn't seem to show up on Google flights as a return trip option, perhaps because of the double connection, but it easily prices up on ITA, and my travel agent had no problem finding and booking the fare when I specified the exact flights and fare basis to her.

It's also worth noting that you seem to be able to have a couple of free stopovers in HKG. I just booked (admittedly through a human travel agent) ARN-LHR-HKG-KUL then, 85 days later, BKK-HKG-LHR-ARN, with a stop of 3 nights in HKG at each end. This cost £1905, which seemed reasonable, especially as three of the four CX legs are on the A350.

Hope this helps someone contemplating an ex-EU trip to the region!

jbar91

Great find. Time to spend my night seeing if this will price to PEK.

Enjoy your trip!

howest

thank you for the post.
i played around with departure dates etc

I found star alliance 1600 euro. 31000 rand quick connections
arn hkg swiss
hkg bkk cathay (but can also use thai)
bkk hkg cathay (but can also use thai)
hkg arn swiss
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Multistop-Reise
Gesamtpreis ab
1.596 €

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Preise beobachten


Flug 1Mi., 27. Sept.
3.042 kg CO2
+32 % Emissionen
Flug ändern

15:55Flughafen Stockholm/Arlanda (ARN)
Reisedauer: 2 h 25 Min.
18:20Flughafen Zürich (ZRH)
SWISS
Business Class
Airbus A320neoLX 1251

• Durchschnittliche Beinfreiheit (81 cm)
• 
  Geschätzte CO₂-Emissionen: 133 kg

28 h 20 Min. ZwischenstoppZürich (ZRH)
Zwischenstopp über Nacht
22:40+1Flughafen Zürich (ZRH)
Reisedauer: 12 h 5 Min.
Über Nacht
16:45+2Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)
SWISS
Business Class
Airbus A340LX 138
Ticket wird auch angeboten von Cathay Pacific
Oft um mehr als 30 Minuten verspätet

• Liegesitzplatz
• WLAN gegen Gebühr
• Strom- und USB-Anschlüsse am Sitz
• On-Demand-Video
• 
  Geschätzte CO₂-Emissionen: 2.909 kg

Flug 2Mi., 4. Okt.
441 kg CO2
-13 % Emissionen
Flug ändern

14:25Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)
Reisedauer: 3 h 5 Min.
16:30Flughafen Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi (BKK)
Cathay Pacific
Business Class
Airbus A330CX 751
Ticket wird auch angeboten von Bangkok Airways

• Stark verstellbarer Sitz
• WLAN gegen Gebühr
• Strom- und USB-Anschlüsse am Sitz
• On-Demand-Video
• 
  Geschätzte CO₂-Emissionen: 441 kg

Flug 3Mi., 11. Okt.
504 kg CO2
Mittl. Emissionen
Flug ändern

12:30Flughafen Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi (BKK)
Reisedauer: 3 h
16:30Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)
Cathay Pacific
Business Class
Airbus A330CX 754
Ticket wird auch angeboten von Bangkok Airways, MIAT

• Liegesitzplatz
• Strom- und USB-Anschlüsse am Sitz
• On-Demand-Video
• 
  Geschätzte CO₂-Emissionen: 504 kg

Flug 4Do., 15. Feb.
2.583 kg CO2
Mittl. Emissionen
Flug ändern

22:45Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)
Reisedauer: 14 h 25 Min.
Über Nacht
06:10+1Flughafen Zürich (ZRH)
SWISS
Business Class
Boeing 777LX 139
Ticket wird auch angeboten von Cathay Pacific

• Liegesitzplatz
• WLAN gegen Gebühr
• Strom- und USB-Anschlüsse am Sitz
• On-Demand-Video
• 
  Geschätzte CO₂-Emissionen: 2.429 kg

3 h 55 Min. ZwischenstoppZürich (ZRH)
10:05+1Flughafen Zürich (ZRH)
Reisedauer: 2 h 25 Min.
12:30+1Flughafen Stockholm/Arlanda (ARN)
SWISS
Business Class
Airbus A220-300 PassengerLX 1248

• Durchschnittliche Beinfreiheit (81 cm)
• 
  Geschätzte CO₂-Emissionen: 155 kg

tango_echo

1600 Euro is great! It's more or less pre-covid pricing. I might have considered that if I weren't trying to earn BA tier points. Do you think you should start a new thread for it? A lot of Star Alliance flyers might not look at a Oneworld thread.

kaspars

2175 EUR for the sample below, with LX and TG, via HKG

https://www.google.com/travel/flight...usaTHdKQ2SvgJA

kt74

Brilliant fare, thanks for spotting it! I was looking later in summer and there is some availability in August / September. I can't get KUL, but I can find HKT, and for around GBP1820 or so on some days. The availability is patchy though, but hope it works for other people. I haven't managed to find it with HKG or LHR stopovers - 24 hours is fine, but anything else adds 1k or more to the fares - but that may be because of fare class availability rather than ticket validity

cesco.g

Great fare! Looking for flights to CGK Nov 21 or 22, return 7 Dec. Any luck with those dates>

nm: found it!

mfgr

I've managed to add on Tokyo for a trip in July for a little extra

Sisyphus1carus

That's a great trip.
Do you know if adding stopovers in HKG adds much more to the cost ?
Love a bit of Hong Kong 👍

no_idea

A stopover in HKG is just a few bucks more expensive.

klick

Nigel Spencer

this is a terrific find. Trying to book it online with Swiss but the price increases £500. Has anyone any recent experiences of booking with a OTA ? Normally avoid them and book with the airline but £500 is a lot extra

DominiqueV

Just use multi-search on swiss website.


Made the same booking on another date with direct booking at Swiss Website

CO58

This fare (1600 euro) is also available if you can find Z class with LH, I had a play around yesterday and got it for about £1350 from ARN through MUC.
Seems like pre-pandmic pricing but slightly harder to get available in Z on LH than LX

Nigel Spencer

i have used the multi search, thats how i found it was £500 more expensive that the price shown on google flights. I have also now tried to book by ringing Swiss and found the same. (My dates are in June/July)

no_idea

On some days it is cheaper to start from GOT. also the leg BKK/HKG is important for the price range. Cheapest option I found here is CX757 and back to HKG with TG.