Cathay Pacific
First Class award availability using AAdvantage and other oneworld partner miles may be dying.
Not exact matches
So Miles & More will charge you fewer miles for business and
first class awards than if you
used United miles AND you get more
availability.
They don't let you book
First Class awards with partners at all, they rarely have low - level
award availability (and I think this might get worse after the recent devaluation), you can only redeem round trip flights (one - ways are coming in 2015 though), and in general their miles are much harder to
use than those of other programs.
You'll want to book back - up flights, either
using United but booking on United or other Star Alliance partners that do offer advance
availability (or even Lufthansa Business
class awards for the flights you hope to get
first class on) OR
use American AAdvantage or other miles to book backup flights.
This
used to be an absolute «secret weapon» when it comes to
award availability, given that there were often at least
first and business
class award seats available.
In the meantime, it makes it a no - brainer to redeem for Cathay Pacific
First Class instead of business class if using US Airways Dividend miles, although the challenge with that is that it's become harder to find Cathay Pacific award availability for two people traveling toge
Class instead of business
class if using US Airways Dividend miles, although the challenge with that is that it's become harder to find Cathay Pacific award availability for two people traveling toge
class if
using US Airways Dividend miles, although the challenge with that is that it's become harder to find Cathay Pacific
award availability for two people traveling together.
Getting
Award Flights to Paris
Using Miles: See our post Airlines and Routes with
First and Business
Class Availability for Europe
first class award availability when
using (and booking through) aadvantage is not the same as
award availability using cathay.
Getting
Award Flights to Switzerland
Using Miles: See our post Airlines and Routes with
First and Business
Class Availability for Europe
For example, even though I
used American Airlines miles to book Cathay Pacific
first class flights, I didn't search for
award availability on the AA website.