Cathay/United: Fly Nonstop From Chicago To Hong Kong For $505 (Or 25K Hybrid Points) Round-Trip

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-Earn 5 points per dollar on the AMEX Platinum Card or 3 points per dollar on airfare with the AMEX Premier Rewards Gold Card or the AMEX Business Gold Rewards Card.
-Earn 3 points per dollar and get $300 in airfare automatically refunded every calendar year with Chase Sapphire Reserve®.

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-You can credit the United K class fare to Singapore Airlines to earn 16,130 miles instead of earning just 2,035 United miles.
-United has a 7 night minimum stay requirement.

-You can credit the Cathay Pacific O class fare to Alaska Airlines to earn 3,897 miles instead of earning 0 Asia miles.
-Cathay Pacific has no minimum stay requirement.

United Chicago-Hong Kong valid dates:
February 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28
March 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 30
April 4, 5, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 27

United Hong Kong-Chicago valid dates:
February: Entire month
March 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30,
April 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 17, 18, 19
May 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18

Cathay Pacific Chicago-Hong Kong valid dates:
February 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28
March 1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 28, 29, 30
April 17, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27

Cathay Pacific Hong Kong-Chicago valid dates:
February 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 21, 22,
March 1, 7, 8, 9, 21, 22,
April 4, 5, 26
May 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15

Hong Kong is a fascinating East meets West city and is home to several great kosher restaurants and shuls. Mul Hayam restaurant, located next to the Kehilat Zion shul in the Kowloon section of Hong Kong, is excellent. The JCC located on Hong Kong Island has very good dairy and meat restaurants as well as an awesome Sunday night all you can eat buffet, just don’t forget to bring your passport to get in! Chabad of Lantau also offers meals with delivery options.

We spent a Shabbos with Chabad of Hong Kong Island where the food was excellent and the atmosphere is awesome. People have rave reviews about Shabbos at Chabad and Kehilat Zion in Kowloon as well.

After Shabbos we moved the W in Kowloon, which is one of my favorite SPG hotels in the world. We got an amazing upgrade and there’s a very cool rooftop infinity pool and hot tub. Plus the bellhop picked up our bags from our room and checked them straight home to Cleveland without us ever having to touch them thanks to the airport express station located in the W’s basement.

There are lots of other great hotels where you can spend your points at as well.

Most hotels even give you a free cell phone to use while in Hong Kong.

Americans do not need a visa to travel to Hong Kong or to take the ferry from Hong Kong to nearby Macau.

These fares are not on sale with miles, but you can pay for the ticket with “hybrid points” if you have AMEX or Chase points and a Business Platinum or Sapphire Reserve card.

Using AMEX points:

If you have The Enhanced Business Platinum Card® from American Express OPEN you can get a 50% rebate on the airline of your choice in coach and on all airlines in business/first class. 

The 50% rebate will go back into your account the day after redeeming points.

You can login to your account and redeem AMEX points for travel here.

A $505.26 flight will be 50,526 points and you would get a 50% rebate making the effective cost just 25,263 points, a value of 2 cents per point:

Using Chase points:

If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve® card you can redeem points for 1.5 cents each towards travel.

A $505.26 coach flight will be 33,684 points. That includes all taxes and you still earn miles for flying!

You can login to your account and redeem Chase points for travel here.

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HT: Yaalili, via DDF