Latest Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Award Charts (2025)

Cathay Pacific Asia Miles has a page on its website titled “Flight awards charts”, however, it doesn’t publish the key award charts that most members would look for:

  1. Miles required for Cathay Pacific-operated flights
  2. Miles required for flights operated by Cathay Pacific’s partner airlines

I’m posting this article for myself, and everyone’s easy reference. These updated award charts take in account the recent Asia Miles changes/devaluation that kicked in from 15 Apr 2025.

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Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Award Charts
Airbus A350 window view from Cathay Pacific Business class (read my review)

Distance-based award charts

Note that Asia Miles award charts are distance-based (not zonal like KrisFlyer).

On distance-based award charts, travel hackers look for routes that are close to the distance limits of each band.

Here’s a quick example:

RouteTotal Distance
(in miles)
Miles Required
(Business Class)
Phuket

Seoul
(via Hong Kong)
2,70928,000
Singapore

Seoul
(via Hong Kong)
2,87258,000

As you can see, a mere 163 miles difference in distance causes the award rate to increase by over 200%!

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How to check route distance?

There are a number of great circle mappers that you can use to calculate the total flight distance. The popular (and free) ones are gcmap.com and seats.aero.

Just remember to include any layover involved (e.g. use SIN-HKG-ICN for Cathay Pacific flights from Singapore to Seoul).

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Award chart for Cathay Pacific flights

Here’s the award chart for redeeming Asia Miles on Cathay Pacific-operated flights.

Distance
(in miles)
EconomyPremium
Economy
BusinessFirst
1 – 7507k11k16k
751 – 2,750
(Type 1*)
9k20k28k43k
751 – 2,750
(Type 2**)
13k23k32k50k
2,751 – 5,00020k38k58k90k
5,001 – 7,50027k50k88k125k
7,501+38k75k115k160k

*Type 1: Any route not involving Type 2 countries.
**Type 2: Any route involving a city in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal or Sri Lanka.

Cathay Pacific business class
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Award chart for partner flights

Here’s the award chart for redeeming Asia Miles on flights operated by Cathay Pacific’s partner airlines (e.g. Finnair, Japan Airlines, Qatar Airways).

Distance
(in miles)
EconomyPremium
Economy
BusinessFirst
1 – 75010k14k20k30k
751 – 2,750
(Type 1*)
15k25k33k53k
751 – 2,750
(Type 2**)
17.5k28k37k60k
2,751 – 5,00027k43k63k100k
5,001 – 7,50040k55k89k135k
7,501+47k80k115k170k

*Type 1: Any route not involving Type 2 countries.
**Type 2: Any route involving a city in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal or Sri Lanka.

Finnair business class
Redeem Asia Miles for Finnair Business Class (read my review)

Example routes for each band

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1 – 750 miles

  • Hong Kong – Taipei
  • Hong Kong – Hanoi
  • Hong Kong – Danang
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751 – 2,750 miles (Type 1*)

  • Singapore – Hong Kong
  • Singapore – Taipei (Cathay via HKG)
  • Bangkok/Phuket/Ho Chi Minh – Seoul (Cathay via HKG)
  • Singapore – Perth (Qantas)

751 – 2,750 miles (Type 2**)

  • Bangkok/Ho Chi Minh/Manila – Osaka (Cathay via HKG)
  • Phuket – Fukuoka (Cathay via HKG)
  • Singapore – India/Nepal (Malaysia Airlines via KUL)
  • Bali – Melbourne (Qantas)

2,751 – 5,000 miles

  • Bangkok – Helsinki (Finnair)
  • Singapore – Melbourne/Sydney (Qantas)
  • Singapore – Tokyo/Osaka (Cathay via HKG)
  • Jakarta/Bali – New Zealand (Qantas via MEL/SYD)
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5,001 – 7,500 miles

  • Singapore – Milan/Frankfurt/Amsterdam (Cathay via HKG)
  • Singapore – Europe (Finnair)
  • Singapore – New Zealand (any airline)
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Over 7,500 miles

  • Singapore – North America
  • Australia/New Zealand – Europe (Cathay via HKG)

*Type 1: Any route not involving Type 2 countries.
**Type 2: Any route involving a city in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal or Sri Lanka.

Award chart for oneworld multi-carrier

This chart is officially shared in the Asia Miles award chart page, but I’ll leave it here together with the other 2 useful ones above.

Refer to this chart to check if you are redeeming a round-trip award ticket with an itinerary which covers:

  • Two oneworld alliance airlines (if Cathay Pacific is not one of your selected carriers) or
  • Three or more oneworld alliance airlines (if Cathay Pacific is one of your selected carriers)

You can choose from all oneworld alliance airlines in your journey, with a maximum distance of 50,000 miles.

ZoneDistance
(in miles)
EconomyBusinessFirst
010 – 1,00030k60k75k
021,001 – 1,50035k65k85k
031,501 – 2,00040k70k95k
042,001 – 4,00045k80k110k
054,001 – 7,50063k100k150k
067,501 – 9,00068k120k165k
079,001 – 10,00077k135k175k
0810,001 – 14,00095k170k250k
0914,001 – 18,000105k210k310k
1018,001 – 20,000115k230k330k
1120,001 – 25,000126k250k350k
1225,001 – 35,000140k265k365k
1335,001 – 50,000160k280k380k
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