Cathay 15% Transfer Bonus + Renew Expiring Miles

Cathay 15% Transfer Bonus + Renew Expiring Miles
Cathay Pacific Airbus A350-1000. Photo: Cathay Pacific.

Cathay Pacific is offering 10-15% bonus Asia Miles when you transfer points from a credit card rewards program to Cathay, the Hong Kong-based airline’s new loyalty program, by 12 November 2022. Plus, by transferring at least the equivalent of 30,000 miles into Cathay, any expiring Asia Miles that you earned prior to 2020 will have their validity extended.

To take advantage of this Cathay transfer bonus offer, you’ll first need to register on the Cathay Pacific website.

With this offer, you’ll receive 10% bonus Asia Miles when converting credit card points to Cathay Asia Miles if the value of the Asia Miles received is less than 30,000 miles. When converting the equivalent of 30,000 or more Asia Miles from a credit card loyalty program in a single transaction, you’ll be given an extra 15% Asia Miles.

You’ll also be eligible for the free mileage renewal offer if you convert credit card points to at least 30,000 Asia Miles by 30 September 2022. This offer may require a separate registration on the Cathay Pacific website.

With the mileage renewal offer, any miles that you earned prior to 1 January 2020 which expired (or would be due to expire) from 1 July 2022 onwards will be reinstated and/or extended, and become subject to Cathay’s new and improved expiration policy.

Until the end of 2019, Cathay Pacific Asia Miles expired after 3 years regardless of account activity. But on 1 January 2020, Cathay changed this policy so that Asia Miles would not expire as long as there was activity in the member’s account at least once every 18 months.

Cathay Asia Miles can be redeemed for flights on Cathay Pacific, Oneworld airlines and other partner airlines.

 

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Pretty good offer considering they will also renew the miles earned prior to Jan 2020.

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What are some good redemption with Cathay miles.

I have a bunch of QFF, Krisflyer and Velocity already but the missus got 250k amex points I want to transfer somewhere so she can close the AMEX account. Don't know where to transfer it to

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What are some good redemption with Cathay miles.

I have a bunch of QFF, Krisflyer and Velocity already but the missus got 250k amex points I want to transfer somewhere so she can close the AMEX account. Don't know where to transfer it to

The award charts are here:

There's also some info here:

Asia Miles redemptions can be quite good value for long-haul awards on CX/Oneworld airlines, but a key limitation is that you can only have one transfer on a one-way award (or two on a round-trip award). The website is also a bit hit & miss when you want to actually book the flights.

The main risk of transferring all those Amex points to Asia Miles would be that CX could go out of business.

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The website is also a bit hit & miss when you want to actually book the flights.

You're not kidding. The new Cathay flight redemption tool is near useless. There seems to be an enormous number of flight routes now missing from the tool, that worked fine in the Asia Miles site.
For example you can't book any Australian capital to anywhere in Europe on QR, only to Doha.
Oddly if you choose a route that is in the system (i.e. SYD-LHR), and there's QR availability it will then show up in the results.
I assume you could also confirm availability leg by leg and call them, but what a pain.

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Oddly if you choose a route that is in the system (i.e. SYD-LHR), and there's QR availability it will then show up in the results.
I assume you could also confirm availability leg by leg and call them, but what a pain.

Those are the two current workarounds for those wanting to book something.

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You're not kidding. The new Cathay flight redemption tool is near useless. There seems to be an enormous number of flight routes now missing from the tool, that worked fine in the Asia Miles site.
For example you can't book any Australian capital to anywhere in Europe on QR, only to Doha.
Oddly if you choose a route that is in the system (i.e. SYD-LHR), and there's QR availability it will then show up in the results.
I assume you could also confirm availability leg by leg and call them, but what a pain.

I am finding it the system impossible to find anything that's available for redemption. It is quite frustrating

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The main risk of transferring all those Amex points to Asia Miles would be that CX could go out of business.

There is zero risk of CX going out of business, the government simply won't allow it and as a last resort would nationalise the whole carrier. The bigger risk is not being able to use those miles before they expire given the scarcity of the seats available (zilch).

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There is zero risk of CX going out of business, the government simply won't allow it and as a last resort would nationalise the whole carrier. The bigger risk is not being able to use those miles before they expire given the scarcity of the seats available (zilch).

Oddly enough I'm less worried about that now that expiry has switched to an activity maintenance model. There's a lot of ways to do this - crediting a hotel/car hire booked through Agoda/Booking.com; transfer a small amount from card; click through the online shop to Australian menulog or iHerb; you could even make a small donation of points to charity!
The only catch is that the 18 months is for the crediting date, which can take a couple of months to credit for some of these, so you'll need to think ahead.

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Found some good redemption for Aug/Sep 2023 Rome to Mel, QR Business at 90k. With the 15% bonus, quite a bargain for Euro to Aus.

P.S - Any questions, their live chat is actually pretty useful. Got informed that the taxes on this route for my date is around 1350AUD one way.. ...so yeah..

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Found some good redemption for Aug/Sep 2023 Rome to Mel, QR Business at 90k. With the 15% bonus, quite a bargain for Euro to Aus.

P.S - Any questions, their live chat is actually pretty useful. Got informed that the taxes on this route for my date is around 1350AUD one way.. ...so yeah..

Are those QR seats actually bookable through Cathay? Someone reported in a different thread that they got an error message when trying to book a QR award using Asia Miles recently.

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