Cathay Pacific Winter Holiday Sweepstakes

Cathay Pacific is running a 'Jingle all the way.... to Hong Kong' Sweepstakes until Dec 17, 2012. You can submit an entry here for a chance to win the grand prize which comprises of a pair of Cathay Pacific roundtrip tickets in Premium Economy from SF, LA, NY or Chicago, 4 nights stay at the Landmark Mandarin Oriental, get a $1000 shopping spree at saks.com and 100,000 Asia Miles! Second and Third prize get 75k and 60k Asia Miles respectively. As always, good luck to all!

Cathay Pacific Walking On Air Sweepstakes

Cathay Pacific is running a fashion show sweepstakes which includes a free flight to Hong Kong from any of Cathay's US gateways along with 5 nights at a boutique hotel!  For more information, sign up here!

Cathay Pacific Economy (SFO - HKG - ICN)

Back in May, I had applied for a Chase British Airways Visa card with a 100k point bonus and was lucky enough to be able to use some of the points for my trip to Seoul in September.  Based on the British Airways partner chart at the time (ie. before the transition over to their new 'Adios' points), I was able to snag an 'almost' free flight from San Francisco to Seoul for just 50k points, passing through Hong Kong both outbound and inbound.  This Oneworld award redemption was awesome as flights to Asia on almost all airline alliances require 65k - 75k points for a US-Asia flight, not to mention that this was on Cathay Pacific, one of the few Skytrax-rated 5-star airlines in the world.

As this was my first time flying Cathay, I was pleasantly surprised soon after boarding to receive a menu for the trans-Pacific flight: