Latest Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Award Charts (Hidden)

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 when making a miles redemption.

These are:

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

I’m publishing this guide for myself and everyone’s easy reference. These updated award charts take into account the most recent Asia Miles award changes/devaluation that took effect on 1 May 2026.

Related: KrisFlyer Award Charts: Saver, Advantage & Access (Hidden)

Distance-based award charts

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

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

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

Route	Total Distance (in miles)	Miles Required (Business Class)
Phuket ↓ Seoul (via Hong Kong)	2,709	27,000
Singapore ↓ Seoul (via Hong Kong)	2,872	60,000

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 seats.aero and gcmap.com.

Just remember to include layovers in your distance calculations (e.g. use SIN-HKG-ICN for Cathay Pacific flights from Singapore to Seoul).

Award chart for Cathay Pacific flights

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

Distance (in miles)	Economy	Premium Economy	Business	First
1 – 750	7k	11k	16k	–
751 – 2,750 (Type 1*)	9k	18k	27k	43k
751 – 2,750 (Type 2**)	13k	23k	33k	50k
2,751 – 5,000	20k	39k	60k	90k
5,001 – 7,500	27k	52k	91k	125k
7,501+	38k	78k	119k	160k

^{*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 partner airline 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 and more).

Distance (in miles)	Economy	Premium Economy	Business	First
1 – 750	10k	14k	20k	30k
751 – 2,750 (Type 1*)	15k	25k	33k	53k
751 – 2,750 (Type 2**)	17.5k	28k	37k	60k
2,751 – 5,000	27k	43k	63k	100k
5,001 – 7,500	40k	55k	93k	135k
7,501+	47k	80k	120k	170k

^{*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.}

Example routes for each band

Here’s a quick look at some popular routes flown by Cathay Pacific or partner airlines, under each distance band:

1 – 750 miles

• Hong Kong – Taipei
• Hong Kong – Hanoi
• Hong Kong – Danang

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)

5,001 – 7,500 miles

• Singapore – Milan/Frankfurt/Amsterdam (Cathay via HKG)
• Singapore – Europe (Finnair)
• Singapore – New Zealand (any airline)

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 on 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 that 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.

Zone	Distance (in miles)	Economy	Business	First
01	0 – 1,000	30k	60k	75k
02	1,001 – 1,500	35k	65k	85k
03	1,501 – 2,000	40k	70k	95k
04	2,001 – 4,000	45k	80k	110k
05	4,001 – 7,500	63k	100k	150k
06	7,501 – 9,000	68k	120k	165k
07	9,001 – 10,000	77k	135k	175k
08	10,001 – 14,000	95k	170k	250k
09	14,001 – 18,000	105k	210k	310k
10	18,001 – 20,000	115k	230k	330k
11	20,001 – 25,000	126k	250k	350k
12	25,001 – 35,000	140k	265k	365k
13	35,001 – 50,000	160k	280k	380k