How to Book Cathay Pacific Business Class Flight with Points

To make a connection flight lax to Hong Kong to Manila do you search multiple stops? How do you search anding a connection flight?

Cathay was my only carrier until Hong Kong policy practically destroyed them. I was basically abandoned in Thailand without even notice by them that my flights were cancelled. Cannot trust them now
And their flights are now ridiculously
Expensive. Switched to JAL.

Can we do LAX - HKG - LHR and still be 70K?

It says business class but its not. and those arent lie flats.

How about HKG to JFK?

Can you make videos about how to travel with miles in Africa?

Any ideas where to look best for business SFO to Spain or Italy fall of 2023 ? Any help greatly appreciated thx 🙏

Hey Max i have enjoyed your video and searching for best tips how to get to scotland late summer of 2023
can you share your tips ? thank you for the help

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Somewhat disagree that AA miles (AAdvantage) are hard to get. Starting in 2014, I began getting American Citi and Barclay credit cards. Using normal spend, (paid in full monthly) but putting a large amount down on a car purchase and some home renovations and appliances also, I currently have over 900,000 American miles. Oh, and that's after several domestic 1st class redemptions, a business class redemption for two from ATL-ORD-HKG with AA and CX as well as two separate business/first trips for two HKG-JFK, LGA-ATL with CX and AA. Last years flights in business were for two ATL-DFW-LHR with AA, LHR-ATH with partner BA, returning IST-LHR-BA business, then LHR-ATL in BA first. (Just try to avoid BA when possible due to their outlandish "fuel surcharges".) No, I'm not wealthy, retired too, but with excellent credit and enough income to pay the credit card amounts when they come in. Oh yeah, I also have over 900,000 with UA and Chase which is helpful when AA wants 135K a pop for our April return from Spain and UA wants 90K!

Would you be able to do a video on how to book a long layover/stop over without needing to use more miles? Thank you!

Hi, can i book a ticket for my friend using miles that are on my asia miles account.

Thx for all the great videos Max. Will be looking into this redemption for Bos-Bkk in 2024 for 2 Bus. tix. All the best in 2023!

Amex MR to Asia Miles is only 1:0.75 here in Canada 😢

Chase points don’t transfer to Cathay Pacific?

Any tips on flying out to ICN (South Korea) with AMEX points, by any chance? Love your content Max!

I have a question. There are a limited amount of award seats, do they also limit which seats on the flight that are for awards or is that first come first serve with selection?

Great content Max. In your other videos you point out that we can maximize using stopovers when redeeming for other airlines or booking services. Is this not the case for Asia Miles? Second question, what if I want to use my chase ultimate reward points which are not supported directly?

Typically how many seats does Cathay open up per flight? How likely for a family of 4?

Hi Max, great video! I would like to request your help on how to book business class to the Philippines. Thank you!

I just used Asia miles for 170000 points for myself from JFK to HKG on 11/1 business class. Not sure how you can use only 1/2 of what I used for. I booked it on 2/2/23

hi ! i read asia miles have some partner besides cathay (qatar airways , qantas, malaysia airlines etc). can we redeem to other airlines from asia miles?

Hi Max, first thank you for your helpful travel tips. I am planning a trip to Hong Kong from the US. I don’t have the credit cards you mentioned in your vlog. Can I use Chase Sapphire or BOA to transfer points? If not is there another flight I can use with these cards that would give great point deals in first class?

When you're doing an initial search to go to a country (Japan, Maldives, etc), how do you know what airline will be best?

Every flight from SFO - HKG I looked at had no award flights available :(

Hey dude I am applying for one of those cards today to get bonus so i can use to travel business to hk in july. Teach me how? I will juse ur referral

I tried AA, don’t know why, there’s was no business class available to redeem. I’m looking to use Alaska miles, but need to check the availability on AA. Not really getting it why sometimes business class is not available.

Hi, I’m trying to book YYZ or YVR- HKG but it says there are no redemption seats available for this flight, for flights as far as a year away. Can we get around this???

I transferred capital one points into Asia miles and the transfer was instant👌

Excellent video, thank you! When adding a connection, for example, SFO to HK with a stop at Tokyo, is there a way to extend the Tokyo stop for multiple days?

It seems to me that airlines don't really want you to use redemption miles, am i wrong?

Any tips to book ticket from NA to India ??

What's weird is it's 16hrs from LAX or JFK

Any tips to flying business class to Philippines? Highly appreciated 😊

Hi Max!

Can I get some help with booking a flight to hk with my capital one miles? From the video I get that it takes 85,000 miles to book it (which if you convert the amount from hk to usd it is $300 something) but is that how you calculate the worth? I was calulating it since it uses 85,000 miles from my capital one miles (and capital one miles is 100 miles is $1) wouldn't it tech mean I paid $850 this?

I am trying to go from JFK to HK, HK to Taiwan, Taiwan back to JFK.

Thanks!

I just tried to book YYZ to HKG using Asia Miles. Am I correct that AA is showing the calendar anymore - showing the available seats? Thanks

Hey Max, thank you for making this video. I tried searching for flights from LAX to HK and then to mainland China. In the video, you mentioned flying from the WC cost 70,000 miles, when I checked it is now 85,000 miles. I wonder if I am doing something wrong or do you know if this is the new rate? The total quoted milage from Cathy's website (LAX to mainland China) was 110,000 miles. Wondering if this is a decent rate? Thank you!

How can I go from jfk to hkg and stop over in Taipei?

I flew business from Toronto YYZ to Auckland AKL via HKG in Business Class for only 85,000 Asia Miles. 26 hours of business class with lounge access for both sectors this past September 2023. Now as of October 1 2023, it costs 110,000 Asia Miles for the same reward.

what credit card points can you transfer to Asian miles?

How do you find out where Cathay flies though? I want to fly from dfw to MTY

How did you find out which cities in the U.S you could fly out if

Thanks for helpful video. Not sure if it still works since as of Jan 25, 2024, there are zero PE or Biz for all of 2024 JFK - HKG.

love this but literally always says no rewards available for feb 2024 from jfk to bali

Hi , i have so many questions regarding on how asia miles works. As per my boss he said we can look for an available flight on the other airlines then call asia miles and tell the flight that we want to book from other airlines, then i spoke to asia miles and told me that we can only look the available flight for other airlines only on asia miles website. Honestly i am really having a hard time to understand how this things work, i am hoping you can help me out here. Thank you!

very helpful ! hope I can get something for Oct and Nov this year!!

weird when i search for lax to hkg, and press the calendar, it says no flights available for business/first

bruh i did this an saw absolutely no availability

How about with chase point

Just followed this video and wanted to leave my experience here for others!

- Called Cathay to put 2 tickets on hold, but was only able to get it for 24 hours. 5 minute wait time to reach an operator.
- AMEX MR & Capitol One points transferred immediately.
- Total time from calling Cathay to finishing the booking took a total of 45 minutes! Had to go back and forth a little because I didn't receive the final confirmation until I called a second time. So I imagine this could have taken 30 minutes or less if everything went smoothly.

Thanks so much!! This is for our honeymoon (: