The Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Multi-Carrier Award Chart

Many reward programs offer round-the-world redemption sweet spots. Some of the more well-known examples are the British Airways Avios World Multi-Carrier Award and the ANA Mileage Club Round-the-World Award.

While they aren’t as common as straightforward round-trip or one-way bookings, they usually are one of the best ways to squeeze outsized value out of your points. Another Oneworld-member airline loyalty program that offers such an option is the Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Multi-Carrier Award Chart.

While the rules may appear quite byzantine at first, once you’ve spent some time figuring it out, there is some outstanding value that can be found with the chart.

The Multi-Carrier Award Chart

The Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Oneworld Multi-Carrier Award Chart is one of the best ways to get great value out of your Asia Miles. If you’re considering a multi-stop round-the-world trip, it’s definitely worth considering as an option.

The Asia Miles Oneworld Multi-Carrier Award Chart only applies to Asia Miles bookings of the following description:

• The itinerary contains no Cathay Pacific flights and two Oneworld partner airlines

• The itinerary contains at least one Cathay Pacific flight, as well as two or more Oneworld partner airlines

Any itinerary with only one Oneworld partner airline is priced according to Asia Miles’s Standard Award Chart, instead of this chart.

Meanwhile, you can’t have three or more Oneworld partners on the itinerary if you don’t also include at least one Cathay Pacific flight.

On top of that, you also cannot mix in any of Cathay’s additional non-Oneworld airline partners such as Air Canada or Aer Lingus.

One of the things you’ll soon notice when you start dabbling with Asia Miles is how unnecessarily complex it all seems. On the plus side, though, that complexity provides shelter to a rather wide array of sweet spots for those who are willing to put in the time and effort into figuring things out.

The award chart itself, as displayed on the Asia Miles website, is as follows:

As you can see, the chart is split into 13 zones, each with a certain distance band for the total mileage of your trip. To figure out which zone your redemption falls into, you add up the distances of all the flown segments, and then look up that zone according to your chosen class of service (redemptions in premium economy are not possible under this award chart). 

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