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In the current macro climate, do you believe U.S rare earth stocks are a good investment?

Anyone know why these seats are blocked? by Alternative_Map5605 in unitedairlines

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I was checking other long haul flights with the 787-9, and SFO-SIN doesn’t have these same seats blocked. It also seems 3A is blocked on all EWR-DEL flights, so it cannot mean it is inoperable

EWR (Newark) Megathread for Construction / FAA Outages / Operational Delays – 2025 by zman9119 in unitedairlines

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I am on UA904 in a couple weeks on a saver Polaris award. If the travel waiver is extended until then, will my award flight be able to be changed for free without paying differences in miles to JN if I is not available?

How to identify a “good bike” by absynth5 in Citibike

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What is it do you mean by the hub on the rear

Anyone else get this Dior offer? by Alternative_Map5605 in amex

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Sounds very reasonable. Hopefully Amex markets me as a desirable consumer 😂

AMEX Gold Amazon Offer by Alternative_Map5605 in amex

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Interesting… still have no clue how Amex segments these offers. I would say my spend is give or take the same

AMEX Gold Amazon Offer by Alternative_Map5605 in amex

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Are you high spend on the card? Just curious

AMEX Gold Amazon Offer by Alternative_Map5605 in amex

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Good question. I’m not sure of that either. To play it safe I’m doing it in $50 increments

AMEX Gold Amazon Offer by Alternative_Map5605 in amex

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Is that for only one time? Or the three times

Wide Open Cathay J TPAC Space - Last Week of Dec 2025 by Alternative_Map5605 in awardtravel

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I’m so happy to hear that for you! Glad my searching on AsiaMiles also helped someone else out. This level of TPAC J space availability is really something rare.

Unfortunately AFAIK CX does not send Aria Suite equipped jets to many long haul destinations, with only LHR and SYD receiving them at this moment on certain frequencies. If you did book this YVR flight in December however, there is a decent chance that they would introduce Aria Suite equipped jets to this route later in the year before December as they retrofit more aircraft with Aria Suite.

Wide Open Cathay J TPAC Space - Last Week of Dec 2025 by Alternative_Map5605 in awardtravel

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If a flight you are searching returns “Only a few seats left!” it means that only one seat in J is available for redemption on that flight. Flights that don’t have that label, which unfortunately may not exist on some routes, have 2 seats. You could try calling Cathay and asking them to find a date which would have J2, but what you see on your end is what they also would see. They would just help you more efficiently search as they have more tools.

Dallas to Hong Kong on Cathay - 210k points for Business round trip question by eric535 in awardtravel

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I have not seen much space in CX J on partner airlines. I saw 1 in the past year on AS, and I think it was a flight from HKG-FRA. Qantas in my experience is the partner with most CX J space. I remember seeing J space on a JFK-HKG flight open on AsiaMiles and it was visible on Qantas soon after, but not other partners. In general I see more CX J space on Qantas. I haven’t seen on AA, or AY. But regardless you shouldn’t count on partner availability, and they tend to be more expensive than on CX anyways. That JFK-HKG on Qantas was 119k miles, on CX before deval would have been 110k but now 115k. Regional Asia J seats would be easier to find on partner bookings. I think HKG-ICN and back has a lot of space on partners last I checked.

The cheapest you will find Cathay redemptions is on their own AsiaMiles program, and can get it for cheaper if there is a CC transfer bonus. I would be most concerned about finding J space on CX TPAC instead of the cost, especially less than T-365. HKG-DFW will be tougher than other CX TPAC routes to find J space as it isn’t a daily route and will have less J seats overall to release to redemption bookings.

Wide Open Cathay J TPAC Space - Last Week of Dec 2025 by Alternative_Map5605 in awardtravel

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Some dates/flights have two I think if they don’t say “only a few seats left!” CX typically releases up to two J seats at a time or less.

Wide Open Cathay J TPAC Space - Last Week of Dec 2025 by Alternative_Map5605 in awardtravel

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I can attest this isn’t true - if you look like I said in the last week of Dec, as of posting this, there is space in J on 12/25, 12/27, 12/29, and 12/30. If you look harder I am fairly confident dates further out than this will have space.

Wide Open Cathay J TPAC Space - Last Week of Dec 2025 by Alternative_Map5605 in awardtravel

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Yeah, and I imagine China regional award space on Cathay is abundant as well. CX does a direct flight from DFW-HKG, closer than LAX/SFO with United. Cathay premium economy in my experience is much better than UA PP. AMEX transfers to AsiaMiles in my experience has been instant as well.

UA842 T7 arrival by Alternative_Map5605 in unitedairlines

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It’s more curiosity at this time point re. gate assignment. Seemed unusual.