Cathay Pacific Offer: 10% Bonus Miles on Points Transfer

By | January 28, 2025

Cathay Pacific that runs the Asia Miles airline loyalty program has recently come up with a 10% bonus points offer with Indian points transfer partners. The offer ends soon and here’s everything you need to know,

Offer Details

Offer10% Bonus miles (uncapped)
Transfer PartnersAmex India & SBICard
Offer Period20 Dec 2024 – 31 Jan 2025
FulfilmentWithin 10 weeks [April 2025]
RegistrationRegister Here
SourceDetailed offer link

As per the terms and conditions of the offer:

There is no limit to the number of conversions and number of Points that can be converted within the Promotion Period.

So all the conversions across partners during the offer period would earn 10% bonus miles. But donot forget to register for the offer prior to transfer.

Should you transfer?

Cathay Pacific operates flights from Hong Kong to multiple Indian cities, including BLR, MAA, BOM, and DEL, with “excellent” award seat availability on its own flights.

I flew Cathay’s Business Class last year on the BLR-HKG and HKG-MAA routes, and it was absolutely worth redeeming miles for the trip to Hong Kong.

The experience is particularly rewarding on routes flying the Airbus A350, such as the Bangalore sector, which offers a modern and comfortable flying experience.

Cathay requires 23K miles for economy & 32K in business oneway (~7K INR in taxes). Note that in economy, roundtrip maybe cheaper like 35K instead of 46K miles.

And if you’re flexible with dates, you may as well fly aspirational products like Cathay First Class to USA from HongKong for 125K miles, which is quite good.

That aside, you may also fly on Oneworld partners like British Airways or SriLankan Airlines but I rarely find a necessity for that as there are other options.

Bottomline

The 10% Bonus Miles offer with Cathay Pacific is indeed a decent offer especially when you’re up for big redemptions, otherwise it doesn’t make sense to park the miles with any airline.

So if you intend to redeem at-least 50K miles or more, it’s good to make use of the opportunity.

Not to mention that Cathay follows soft expiry, like Accor, so any earn/redeem activity including points transfer would extend the miles by 18 months. Hence, unless Cathay devalues the program, the miles are quite safe for sometime.

Author: Siddharth

Helping Indians choose the right credit cards, find the best offers, and enjoy luxury vacations for less using credit card rewards.

2 thoughts on “Cathay Pacific Offer: 10% Bonus Miles on Points Transfer

  1. Sachin B S

    I am planning to use Asia Miles to book round trip economy tickets to Japan from Hyd/Blr this September for 2 Pax. It is going to cost me about 80,000 miles (160,000 Amex MR points) + INR 40,000 Rs. I am having second thoughts as the round trip economy fares fall about INR 1 Lakh. Should I use my points, or buy tickets directly?

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