Hi all,
Our babysitter in Toronto is a very hard working Filipino lady who has been saving up $$ to bring her son over from the Phillipines to Toronto. He is 13. The cash fare is about $1600. She saw him last year when she went back home, but she hadn't seen him in the 8 years prior to that.
I have quite a few AA miles so did some searching to see if I could help her by getting her son over here so she can put her savings to another use. He'd need to fly MNL-HKG-YYZ. In the next two months there are about a dozen dates with the HKG-YYZ leg, but only one of those dates has a MNL-HKG leg immediately before it with a short connection available. (Longer connection is no good since I don't think we could leave a 13 year old lad overnight in an airport alone).
It's 35000 miles in Y for both MNL-HKG-YYZ, or HKG-YYZ. It would be ideal to book it all as one award, but if that one date doesn't work out for her then I could look at booking a revenue MNL-HKG fare to then connect with the HKG-YYZ award ticket.
Since he's 13 he will need to be assisted by airline staff - I don't really know how that works with regard to stopovers.
So my question is this: if I end up booking the HKG-YYZ on CX as an AA award, and then book a revenue Y fare from MNL-HKG with CX (with a 3.5 hour stopover in HKG), will Cathay be able to marry up the flights beforehand so that he gets assisted all the way?
Will he be able to check his baggage from MNL all the way through to YYZ?
And will he be able to check in for both flights at MNL airport? I assume if he's checked in for both and there's then a delay and he misses the award flight from HKG, he'd be covered by the airline.
Whilst I'm trying to do a good deed I obviously don't want anything to backfire, particularly where a 13 year old with no adult supervision is concerned, who's never really travelled before.
Any advice would be most welcome. Thank you!
Our babysitter in Toronto is a very hard working Filipino lady who has been saving up $$ to bring her son over from the Phillipines to Toronto. He is 13. The cash fare is about $1600. She saw him last year when she went back home, but she hadn't seen him in the 8 years prior to that.
I have quite a few AA miles so did some searching to see if I could help her by getting her son over here so she can put her savings to another use. He'd need to fly MNL-HKG-YYZ. In the next two months there are about a dozen dates with the HKG-YYZ leg, but only one of those dates has a MNL-HKG leg immediately before it with a short connection available. (Longer connection is no good since I don't think we could leave a 13 year old lad overnight in an airport alone).
It's 35000 miles in Y for both MNL-HKG-YYZ, or HKG-YYZ. It would be ideal to book it all as one award, but if that one date doesn't work out for her then I could look at booking a revenue MNL-HKG fare to then connect with the HKG-YYZ award ticket.
Since he's 13 he will need to be assisted by airline staff - I don't really know how that works with regard to stopovers.
So my question is this: if I end up booking the HKG-YYZ on CX as an AA award, and then book a revenue Y fare from MNL-HKG with CX (with a 3.5 hour stopover in HKG), will Cathay be able to marry up the flights beforehand so that he gets assisted all the way?
Will he be able to check his baggage from MNL all the way through to YYZ?
And will he be able to check in for both flights at MNL airport? I assume if he's checked in for both and there's then a delay and he misses the award flight from HKG, he'd be covered by the airline.
Whilst I'm trying to do a good deed I obviously don't want anything to backfire, particularly where a 13 year old with no adult supervision is concerned, who's never really travelled before.
Any advice would be most welcome. Thank you!
