Cathay Pacific booking classes

[bussyboy]

I've a Qantas classic reward booking on CX BNE-HKG that's showing on my bookings page as earning 4950 Qantas points and 30 SC
My later HKG-SIN leg on CX doesn't indicate any earn, but even as Points Club Plus I wouldn't have expected any earn.

Does anyone know if this will stick as a (likely) bank error?

 

[SYD]

I've a Qantas classic reward booking on CX BNE-HKG that's showing on my bookings page as earning 4950 Qantas points and 30 SC
My later HKG-SIN leg on CX doesn't indicate any earn, but even as Points Club Plus I wouldn't have expected any earn.

Does anyone know if this will stick as a (likely) bank error?

Unlikely but keep quiet if it does! Stranger things have happened.

We have an upcoming CR booking CX to QF and only the QF sector is showing PC earn.

 

[elanshin]

I've a Qantas classic reward booking on CX BNE-HKG that's showing on my bookings page as earning 4950 Qantas points and 30 SC
My later HKG-SIN leg on CX doesn't indicate any earn, but even as Points Club Plus I wouldn't have expected any earn.

Does anyone know if this will stick as a (likely) bank error?

did you by anychance have some sort of complicated award ticket and have it cancel/reappear later?

 

[bussyboy]

@elanshin Booking has 5 sectors, doesn't return to origin, 3 airlines, and a "gap" in the middle when I'm flying SQ on another ticket....

But I booked online so can't be that complicated!

(Weirdly if I added the domestic leg at the end to city of origin, it crashed out... but this isn't the Qantas IT gripes thread)

 

[JohnK]

Personally I would take CX at that price, unless you have status that can guest 2 people at SIN.

I missed the boat with CX airfare. I had it ready to book for $2500 but hesitated a few hours and it went up to $3100 at which point there is no rush but is now available for $2970 on Booking dot com.

Wife is Velocity Platinum and I'm Gold so we have lounge access for 3 everywhere but I agree with you that lounge access is nothing special.

I also noticed that Velocity awards on SQ are ridiculously priced in recent times so no incentive to Accumulate Velocity points.

 

[Bugalugz]

I'm in 'E' Class - Premium Economy PER-HKG-HND, does anyone know whether this just earn the 'Flexible Economy Rate' because it's the lower fare bucket?

 

[MELso]

I'm in 'E' Class - Premium Economy PER-HKG-HND, does anyone know whether this just earn the 'Flexible Economy Rate' because it's the lower fare bucket?

IME, I flew from MEL-HKG-ICN with MEL-HKG in E premium economy earlier this year. It does indeed earn at flexible economy rates (rather than premium economy). You'll lose a few points, but at least the SC earn is the same.

 

[burneracc]

I'm in 'E' Class - Premium Economy PER-HKG-HND, does anyone know whether this just earn the 'Flexible Economy Rate' because it's the lower fare bucket?

Hijacking thread in case you didn't see my other post, but funnily enough I built this tool linked below literally because I was getting very frustrated trying to work out PER-HKG earn rates on CX across economy, pe, and j.

I can say that for PER-HKG you will earn 60 SC in class E on Cathay. Whereas if you flew Cathay MEL-HKG in class E you would earn 30sc. You should earn another 30 SC on HKG-ICN if you are also in E for that segment.

Thread 'I built a free tool that calculates qantas earn rate on oneworld flights'

Dec 27, 2025

Hello everyone!

I have been around on this forum for a year or so now and have learnt a lot of valuable information that helped me to optimise my travel patterns. One of these optimisations is that when flying a oneworld airline, I try to make sure that I am booked into a fare bucket that earns status on QF (provided the price is right of course). Typically the advice is to "check the partner earn tables" which works perfectly fine, however it isn't fun to do repeatedly while trying to book travel, which is where this tool I put together very quickly comes in.

I have found my site useful...

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I flew from MEL-HKG-ICN with MEL-HKG in E premium economy earlier this year. It does indeed earn at flexible economy rates (rather than premium economy)

Semi correct for melbourne / BNE / SYD, but not for PER-HKG. Cathay E does map to qantas flex economy, but the trick to take into consideration is that Qantas caps earn rates on Cathay between east coast and HKG but they don't from Perth. The reason I bring this up is that the earn rate will be actually decent between Perth and HKG for mr Bugz.

One example; I have flown business with CX ex-PER and got the full 120 SC each way on that route which is ~7.5 hours, whereas flying CX business to HKG from east coast australia earns 60 SC (literally half) despite being a longer flight duration at ~9 hours. The same applies to PE; MEL-HKG earns 30sc on CX in E but earns 60 on PER-HKG in E.

CX flights out of Perth are actually very good earners if you can book the correct fare bucket. The trick is avoiding the pesky fare buckets that earn nothing.