Cathay Pacific is winding up 2025 with a new deal for Asia Miles members, offering up to 30% miles rebate on award redemptions to selected destinations across Asia. If you’re sitting on a stash of Asia Miles and have travel plans in early 2026, this could be a worthwhile opportunity to stretch your miles a bit further.

Registration is required before redeeming, and bookings must be made by 31st December 2025, so take a look now if you think it’s something you might benefit from.

The offer at a glance

The miles rebate you receive depends on the number of sectors you redeem during the promotional period:

Cathay Asia Miles Rebate
Sectors redeemed	Miles rebate
1 sector	10%
2 – 3 sectors	20%
4+ sectors	30%

A one-way direct flight counts as one sector, so a return trip would count as two sectors. Importantly, the rebate is calculated on your total miles redeemed across all bookings made during the promotional period, so there’s no need to cram everything into a single reservation to hit the higher tiers.

For example, if you book a one-way Singapore-Hong Kong redemption (1 sector) and later add a Hong Kong – Taipei one-way (1 sector), you’d qualify for the 20% rebate tier on both bookings.

Key dates

Registration and redemption period: 19th December 2025 – 31st December 2025

Travel periods:

• 5th January 2026 to 7th February 2026; and
• 23rd February 2026 to 31st March 2026

Note that the travel windows deliberately exclude the Chinese New Year period (which falls in mid-February 2026), so you’ll need to plan around those blackout dates.

Eligible routes

This promotion covers Cathay Pacific marketed and operated flights between Hong Kong and the following destinations:

• Chinese Mainland and Taiwan
  Beijing, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hangzhou, Kaohsiung, Nanjing, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shanghai (Hongqiao), Shanghai (Pudong), Taipei, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xi’an, Zhengzhou, Urumqi
• Southeast Asia
  Bangkok, Cebu, Denpasar (Bali), Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Penang, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Singapore, Surabaya

Crucially, your itinerary must originate or end in Hong Kong. This means a Singapore – Hong Kong redemption qualifies, but a Singapore – Hong Kong – Taipei booking on a single ticket would not (as Hong Kong would merely be a transit point, rather than start / endpoint).

If you wanted to travel Singapore – Hong Kong – Taipei under this promotion, you’d need to book it as two separate redemptions: Singapore – Hong Kong and Hong Kong – Taipei. This would count as two sectors, putting you in the 20% rebate tier.

What’s covered

• Cabin class: All cabin classes, including mixed-cabin redemptions
• Trip types: One-way and return
• Open-jaw: Permitted (your outbound destination and return departure point can differ)
• Rebate cap: None – there’s no limit on the miles rebate you can earn

Only Standard Awards are eligible; this excludes Waitlist Awards and upgrade awards.

How to participate

1. Register for the promotion via the dedicated registration page before 31st December 2025
2. Log in to your Cathay membership account
3. Redeem your flights through the Cathay Pacific website

You must have been a Cathay member on or before 16th December 2025 to be eligible.

Is it worth it?

The value proposition depends on your travel plans and how many sectors you can realistically redeem.

For Singapore-based travellers, the Singapore – Hong Kong route is already an Asia Miles sweet spot at just 9,000 miles one-way in Economy or 28,000 miles in Business Class. A 30% rebate would bring these down to an effective 6,300 and 19,600 miles respectively, which is decent value.

Don’t forget though, if you have Qatar Airways Avios points the rate is only 22,000 miles one-way in Business Class on this route, with lower taxes and fees to pay.

Also, if Hong Kong isn’t your final destination, you’ll want to do the maths carefully. Booking separate sectors to qualify for the rebate may not always work out cheaper than a single through-booking.

Take a Singapore – Taipei routing, for example. A single Economy redemption via Hong Kong costs 9,000 miles. But booking Singapore – Hong Kong (9,000 miles) plus Hong Kong – Taipei (7,000 miles) separately totals 16,000 miles. Even with a 30% rebate, you’d pay 11,200 miles. In this case, the single booking is actually better value.

The calculus shifts for longer routes though. For Business Class to Beijing, a single Singapore – Beijing redemption via Hong Kong costs 58,000 miles. Booking it as two sectors (Singapore – Hong Kong at 28,000 + Hong Kong – Beijing at 28,000 = 56,000 miles) with a 30% rebate brings the total to 39,200 miles – a meaningful saving.

When will the miles rebate be credited?

Unfortunately this deal isn’t like the Singapore Airlines Spontaneous Escapes promotions, where the discounted miles rate is immediately reflected on booking.

Instead with this Cathay offer you’ll get the miles rebate credited separately by 31st May 2026.

If you change or cancel your booking such that it no longer meets the promotional requirements, you won’t receive the rebate miles.

Stack with Cathay’s “Rewards in the Air” promotion

Cathay Pacific is also running its “Rewards in the Air” promo between now and 31st January 2026, offering up to 5,700 bonus Asia Miles for completing six simple missions.

Redeeming an award ticket under this miles rebate offer would count towards Mission 1 (complete one miles transaction) and Mission 4 (redeem at least 15,000 Asia Miles), making it easy to double-dip on both promotions.

This is a decent promotion for travellers with Asia Miles to burn and short-haul travel plans in early 2026. The 30% rebate tier is achievable if you’re travelling with a companion (four sectors between two people) or planning multiple trips.

Singapore – Hong Kong redemptions already represent decent value in the Asia Miles programme, and knocking off up to 30% makes them even more attractive.

Just be sure to register before making any redemptions, and crunch the numbers if you’re considering splitting bookings to hit the higher rebate tiers, since it doesn’t always make sense to do so.

(Cover Photo: Cathay Pacific)