Up to 15% bonus on Credit Card transfers - Cathay

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Here’s something to smile about — our bonus miles offer is back, and this time you can also renew your unused miles for free. Earn up to 15% bonus miles1 when you convert your credit card points to Asia Miles between 13 September and 12 November 2022 and turn your long-awaited getaway into a reality. More miles means more rewards.​ ​

​ Your bonus miles and free miles renewal ​ Receive bonus miles and renew the balance of miles you earned before 1 January 2020, free of charge2, by converting credit card points into miles.

Miles converted from our finance partners	Rewards
Earn less than 30,000	10% bonus miles
Earn 30,000 or above	15% bonus miles free mileage renewal

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[risaka]

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

 

[Ktan89]

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

 

[Mattg]

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:

https://www.asiamiles.com/en/redeem-awards/flight-awards/flight-award-chart.html

There's also some info here:

Overview of Cathay (Asia Miles) Redemptions - Australian Frequent Flyer

Asia Miles, the frequent flyer program currency of Cathay Pacific, can be redeemed to fly on Oneworld and various other partner airlines.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

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.

 

[adelaidefc]

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.

 

[Mattg]

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.

 

[mackdonald]

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

 

[exmc]

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).

 

[adelaidefc]

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.

 

[foxypanda]

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..

 

[Mattg]

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.

Have Cathay been locked out of QR J awards?

Having a look at FlyerTalk forums it seems no one is able to book a QR J award from 2023, even when the online tool shows available awards. You can get through the details page then the site errors when going to the payment page. Anyone with greater insight have any idea if this is a permanent...

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

 

[foxypanda]

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.

Have Cathay been locked out of QR J awards?

Having a look at FlyerTalk forums it seems no one is able to book a QR J award from 2023, even when the online tool shows available awards. You can get through the details page then the site errors when going to the payment page. Anyone with greater insight have any idea if this is a permanent...

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

I completely missed that thread! When i was chatting to the live agent, he did ask me for exact route and time and date to work out the taxes. However do proceed with caution. Dont want to be stuck having transferred points and not able to use them

 

[BriarFlyer]

@foxypanda Did you actually book the QR award or were you enquiring on taxes prior to transferring points and booking?

 

[foxypanda]

@foxypanda Did you actually book the QR award or were you enquiring on taxes prior to transferring points and booking?

Didn't book. Got scared after i got told the taxes

 

[kkl]

Anyone transferred points and received the bonus points quickly? or will be credited after the promo?

 

[RealtimeY]

I transferred on 27 Sep but haven't received my bonus points yet.

 

[risaka]

Most likely they will credit the bonus points after the promo. I've transferred my points earlier this week and there's no bonus points.

 

[risaka]

I have reread their T&Cs, it will take 8-10 weeks for them to credit the bonus miles.

“AML will credit the Bonus Miles earned under this Promotion Offer to Eligible Members’ Cathay membership accounts within 8 to 10 weeks after 12 November 2022. Eligible Members shall notify AML by 28 February 2023 if they do not receive the Bonus Miles;”

 

[Jstr]

Haven't received my bonus yet.

Although technically I transferred the points before I activated the offer (on the same day), the wording implies as long as I activate, the offer should apply to all points transferred within that period, not just after I activate the offer...

Being hopeful.

 

[kkl]

they have launched another offer for jan. but nothing credited yet for nov-dec transfers