# timeline.hk

> timeline.hk is an independent tool that monitors Cathay Pacific Asia Miles award-seat availability and curates Hong Kong daily deals and perks — each priced and dated. It is not affiliated with Cathay Pacific or Asia Miles.

## Key pages
- Home: https://timeline.hk/
- How it works: https://timeline.hk/how-it-works
- Monitoring and alerts: https://timeline.hk/alerts
- Routes & insights: https://timeline.hk/routes
- Asia Miles award chart: https://timeline.hk/awards
- Deals: https://timeline.hk/deals
- Travel deals: https://timeline.hk/deals/travel
- Local and retail deals: https://timeline.hk/deals/local
- Deals timeline (ordered by expiry): https://timeline.hk/deals?view=timeline
- Deal categories: https://timeline.hk/categories
- FAQ: https://timeline.hk/faq
- About: https://timeline.hk/about
- Contact: https://timeline.hk/contact
- News: https://timeline.hk/blog

## Facts
- Scope: Asia Miles award seats on Cathay Pacific, plus Hong Kong departure fares, plus a curated feed of Hong Kong deals and perks (dining, supermarket, travel, cards, freebies) with price, expiry and terms.
- Deals carry an affiliate disclosure: a CTA is marked sponsored and nofollow only when a tracked link can be applied to the merchant's own page; otherwise it links to the merchant with no monetary claim.
- Monitoring is a one-time payment, no auto-renew: Single Watch HK$9 for one route, date and cabin until departure; 30-Day Pass HK$39 for up to 100 concurrent Watches.
- Each active Watch is checked about hourly. Alerts and one daily progress digest arrive by email.
- Cabins: Economy, Premium Economy (where available), Business and First.
- No Asia Miles login or password is ever requested or stored; the booking itself is completed on Cathay Pacific's own site.
- An alert is a signal to act, not a guarantee: award seats can be taken before a redemption completes.

## Languages
- English: https://timeline.hk/
- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong): https://timeline.hk/zh-Hant
- Simplified Chinese: https://timeline.hk/zh-Hans

## News
- [2026 Black Friday Electronics Deals: Laptops, Headphones, TVs — What to Buy?](https://timeline.hk/blog/black-friday-2026-electronics-deals): Black Friday 2026 falls on November 27, with Cyber Monday on November 30. This guide rounds up Hong Kong shoppers' top electronics picks — laptops, Bluetooth headphones, TVs, SSDs and smart home devices — with credit card cashback, parcel forwarding tips, and a pitfall guide.
- [Sydney for about HK$4,200: an economy award to Australia is worth about 3.5 cents a mile](https://timeline.hk/blog/australia-early-bird-fare-vs-award-value): Hong Kong Airlines is selling Melbourne from about HK$4,100 and Sydney from about HK$4,200 round trip for March–June 2027. An Economy award to the same cities costs 40,000 miles round trip plus about HK$2,720 of fuel surcharge — about 3.5 cents of value per mile. The miles only defend themselves in Business.
- [Asia Miles in October 2026: the five stories that matter](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-october-2026-news-roundup): JAL awards are suspended, long-haul Business costs more than it did in May, First Class is shrinking, surcharges are high and Cathay is opening new routes. Here is the October 2026 roundup.
- [Cathay's new JFK Terminal 6 lounge: what premium award travellers should know](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-jfk-terminal-6-lounge-guide): Cathay is moving to JFK Terminal 6 and opening a nearly 10,000 sq ft lounge there later in 2026 — its first dedicated lounge in New York. Here is what is confirmed, what is not, and why it matters for First and Business awards.
- [The 2027 Cathay reset: a checklist before 31 December 2026](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-2027-status-checklist): Your 2027 Cathay status is decided by the Status Points you earn in 2026, and points reset on 1 January 2027. Mid-status benefits are being retired. Here is a practical checklist for the next ten weeks.
- [Matsukiyo's HK$300 coupon: 10% back, or 5%, depending on whether you go back](https://timeline.hk/blog/matsukiyo-coupon-loop-2026): Spend HK$300 at the Tsing Yi store and get a HK$30 coupon that needs another HK$300 to use. Two trips is 5% back; the coupon alone looks like 10%.
- [Two UnionPay offers worth using in November, and the limits that shrink them](https://timeline.hk/blog/unionpay-november-2026-offers): Maxim's gives HK$50 off HK$250 — 20% at the floor and less as the bill grows; DiDi gives two ¥5 vouchers, mainland rides only. Read the edges first.
- [What HK$1,100 of supermarket 'value' actually buys, and how to price the rest](https://timeline.hk/blog/supermarket-value-math-november-2026): Wellcome advertises HK$1,100 of value across four weeks; ParknShop advertises an average price. Neither is a discount you can bank — here is the arithmetic.
- [Premium Economy vs Economy vs Business: how to choose on miles](https://timeline.hk/blog/premium-economy-vs-economy-vs-business): Three cabins, two steps, and a chart where the middle step is usually cheaper than the top one. A practical way to decide between Economy, Premium Economy and Business on an Asia Miles award — including the routes where Premium Economy is the wrong answer.
- [Free birthday entry in Hong Kong: Ocean Park and Ngong Ping 360](https://timeline.hk/blog/birthday-free-entry-2026): Ocean Park needs an online booking plus ID; Ngong Ping 360 gives a free standard-cabin return on the day plus 20% off up to three companion tickets.
- [Double 11 2026 hotel vouchers: the blackout dates decide the discount](https://timeline.hk/blog/double-11-2026-hotel-vouchers): St Regis sells HK$1,375 of credit for HK$1,100; Sheraton Tung Chung sells a HK$2,000 dining voucher for HK$1,111. Both exclude peak December.
- [How timeline.hk sources a deal, and what 'unverified' actually means](https://timeline.hk/blog/how-yup-hk-sources-deals): Every offer here comes from a public source with a date, a price and a link: the pipeline, the fields we normalise, and where we refuse to guess.
- [ParknShop's $18 and $38 zones: turning 'average price' back into unit price](https://timeline.hk/blog/parknshop-18-38-zone): Nissin noodles at $18 for five packs, Nescafé at $18 for two bottles, eggs at $23 a tray — divide by the count before calling anything cheap.
- [A power bank caught fire under a seat on a Jeju flight: what HK Express requires, and what the rules cannot stop](https://timeline.hk/blog/hk-express-power-bank-fire-cabin-rules): On 25 October a power bank in a bag under a passenger's seat on a Hong Kong–Jeju flight began to smoke, and the woman who reached in to pull it out burned her thumb. The battery was exactly where HK Express's rules say it should be. Here is what those rules require, why the position matters, and the part of the risk no packing rule reaches.
- [Premium Economy awards: what each band costs, and where the seats actually exist](https://timeline.hk/blog/premium-economy-award-value-by-band): Premium Economy is the cheapest step up from Economy in miles, and the hardest cabin to find award space in. Here is the band-by-band cost, what each step buys, and six months of our own availability data on where PE awards are actually bookable.
- [Cathay Aria Suite routes 2026: every route and flight number](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-aria-suite-routes): Aria Suite now flies to London, Frankfurt, Milan, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver and Tokyo Haneda. Here is the full route and flight-number list for late 2026, plus how to confirm your aircraft before you redeem.
- [Cathay's 150-destination plan: what it means for award travellers](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-150-destinations-expansion): Cathay Group reported a 71% rise in first-half profit and is targeting 150 new aircraft and 150 destinations within a decade. The fleet and network plans will shape where award seats appear — and which cabins they have.
- [Okinawa for HK$1,900: the Type 2 band charges Japan 6,000 extra miles](https://timeline.hk/blog/japan-type-2-band-award-value): Hong Kong Airlines is selling Okinawa from HK$1,900 round trip into June 2027, and a JAL Tokyo 5D4N package from HK$4,000. Japan is the one short-haul region Asia Miles prices in Type 2: 33,000 miles in Business against 27,000 for Bangkok or Seoul in the same distance band. Here is where the miles still work.
- [About HK$1,300 to Taipei: what a 7,000-mile award is worth on Hong Kong's shortest sector](https://timeline.hk/blog/hk-taiwan-fare-vs-award-value): Taipei is going for about HK$1,300 round trip and a Taichung 4D3N package for about HK$1,400, while the two Cathay packages closed their booking windows on 8 October. At 14,000 Asia Miles round trip plus HK$680 of surcharge, the Economy award is worth under 5 cents a mile.
- [Cathay First Class is disappearing: the routes left and how to book them](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-first-class-last-routes): Cathay's Aria Suite retrofit removes First Class from the 777-300ER. First is now sold on only four routes, and the new cabin does not arrive until the 777-9. Here is where First still flies and how to spot it.
- [Cathay's Hong Kong–Almaty route: what it means for award bookings](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-hong-kong-almaty-award-guide): Cathay launches Hong Kong–Almaty on 9 January 2027, its first Central Asia destination. Three weekly A330-300 flights open a new award route and a new distance band. Here is what to know before you set a watch.
- [Aria Suite vs Aria Studio: how to tell if your Cathay flight has the new cabin](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-aria-suite-studio-guide): Cathay has two new Business Class products: Aria Suite on the 777-300ER and Aria Studio on the A330-300. They are not the same seat, and they are rolling out on different routes. Here is how to spot them before you redeem.
- [Cathay's new redemption dates: 2027 Easter and Ching Ming — what's worth booking in Business](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-2027-easter-ching-ming-availability): Cathay's latest redemption dates cover 27 March to 20 April 2027, spanning Easter, Ching Ming and the spring weeks after. We summarise the supply and highlight three Business pairings: Taipei/Kaohsiung, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
- [Asia Miles has stopped booking Japan Airlines awards: what to do now](https://timeline.hk/blog/asia-miles-jal-award-suspension): Since 9 October 2026, Asia Miles has suspended new Japan Airlines award bookings and changes to existing JAL awards, with no end date announced. Here is what is blocked, what still works, and how to reach Japan on points.
- [Asia Miles' May 2026 repricing: the new award rates, band by band](https://timeline.hk/blog/asia-miles-award-repricing-2026): On 1 May 2026 Cathay repriced Asia Miles awards for the third time since 2023. Short-haul Type 1 Business and Premium Economy became cheaper; Type 2 and long-haul Business rose. Here is the current chart and what it means.
- [Why your 'free' Cathay award now costs US$200 in surcharges](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-award-fuel-surcharges-2026): Cathay raised fuel surcharges three times in 2026. They apply to Asia Miles and Avios awards as a cash co-pay, and long-haul rates are now around HK$1,362 per sector. Here is how to price the cash side before you transfer points.
- [Cathay's Dubai and Riyadh suspension: what award holders should do](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-middle-east-suspension-award-holders): Cathay's Hong Kong–Dubai and –Riyadh passenger services are suspended through 31 January 2027. Rebooking and refund waivers cover tickets departing through March 2027. Here is what it means if you are holding an award.
- [Amex cut Asia Miles transfers to 5:4 — where to move points instead](https://timeline.hk/blog/asia-miles-transfer-partner-reset-2026): Since 1 March 2026, Amex Membership Rewards transfer to Asia Miles at 5:4 instead of 1:1. Wells Fargo joined as a 1:1 partner in April, and Citi, Capital One and Bilt remain at 1:1. Here is how to choose a transfer route.
- [Cathay Pacific's 2027 membership overhaul: what changes for Asia Miles members](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-membership-2027-changes): Cathay Pacific is restructuring its loyalty programme for 2027: a new Diamond Exec tier, no mid-cycle Status Point resets, calendar-year membership, and point rollover. Here is what Asia Miles members need to know.
- [Cathay's August 2025 Asia Miles change: how your flights now earn](https://timeline.hk/blog/cathay-asia-miles-earning-changes-2025): On 20 August 2025 Cathay Pacific reweighted how Asia Miles and Status Points are earned on its own flights: premium cabins earn more, the cheapest Economy Light fares earn less, and some distance zones were redrawn. Here is what changed and what it means for your next booking.

## Citing
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