Convert Points to Asia Miles with a 10% Bonus

Until August 28, 2026, Cathay Pacific Asia Miles is offering a 10% bonus whenever you convert points into Asia Miles under a promotion it’s calling Mega Miles.

Asia Miles has run versions of this bonus before, but this one is narrower than most. It’s open to Canadians only, it’s capped, and it requires registration before you move a single point.

To benefit from the 10% bonus, you’ll need to register beforehand. Head to the promotion’s landing page, sign in, and submit your membership number, name, and email address.

Registration is required to be eligible, and only conversions initiated after you’ve registered will qualify.

Both the registration and the conversion have to land inside the promotional window, which runs from 12:00am PT on July 27, 2026 to 11:59pm PT on August 28, 2026, with both dates inclusive. Those are Pacific times rather than your local clock, so the real deadline in Eastern Canada is 2:59am on August 29, and an hour later again in Atlantic Canada.

The bonus is capped at 10,000 bonus miles per member, applied across all participating partners combined rather than per transfer. Since the bonus runs at 10%, you’ll reach the cap once you’ve converted 100,000 miles, and anything beyond that earns nothing further.

The promotion is open to legal residents of Canada, excluding Quebec, and your Cathay Pacific profile needs to list Canada as its Preferred Mailing Country at the time you participate.

A few readers outside Quebec have reported hitting the “this promotion is not available for members located in Quebec” message anyway. If that happens, make sure the home and mailing addresses on your Cathay Pacific profile are set properly, and try again in a day or two.

As with previous versions of this offer, the bonus won’t appear on your credit card points portal, since it’s happening on the Asia Miles end. Cathay Pacific credits the bonus roughly 12 weeks after the regular miles have posted and been verified, so this isn’t a way to top up an account for a booking you want to make next week. The underlying conversion still lands on its usual timeline.

If bonus miles never show up, you have six months from the end of the fulfilment period to file a claim.

Keep in mind that you need some form of activity in your Asia Miles account every 18 months to prevent your miles from expiring. Earning or redeeming a single Asia Mile resets the clock.

Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Conversion Ratios

The Canadian points programs that let you convert into Asia Miles, and their ratios, are as follows:

Among the Canadian financial partners, RBC Avion is usually considered the best way to accumulate Asia Miles, followed by Amex Membership Rewards, mainly because MR points can also be transferred to other programs at a better 1:1 ratio. Note that RBC Avion requires a minimum conversion of 10,000 points at a time.

In practical terms, for every 1,000 Avion points you convert you’ll receive 1,100 Asia Miles, improving the standard 1:1 ratio to 1:1.1. On the Amex side, the standard 1:0.75 becomes 1:0.825. Bear in mind the bonus is credited separately after the fact, so the conversion platform may still display the standard ratio at the time you transfer.

Readers who remember earlier versions of this promotion may be looking for HSBC Rewards on that list. It’s no longer there, since HSBC Canada has been absorbed into RBC.

If you don’t hold an eligible card yet, the current welcome bonuses are worth factoring in. The RBC® Avion Visa Infinite^† is offering 35,000 Avion points on approval, plus another 20,000 after you spend $5,000 in the first six months. Convert all 55,000 during this promotion and you’d land 60,500 Asia Miles, against the 55,000 you’d get at the standard rate.

Unlike the last few runs, hotel programs are eligible this time. The participating list covers Accor, Best Western Hotels & Resorts, Hilton, InterContinental Hotels Group, Shangri-La Hotels, Hyatt, Anantara Vacation Club, Brilliant by Langham, and Dorsett.

Marriott Bonvoy isn’t part of the 10% promotion, though its standard conversion still applies, at 3:1 with 5,000 bonus miles for every 60,000 points transferred. In most cases, converting hotel points is the less rewarding route for Canadians anyway, since Avion and MR points can be earned directly on credit card spending.

Card earning on the Cathay World Elite® Mastercard® – powered by Neo doesn’t participate, which makes it optimal to put spending on the RBC® Avion Visa Infinite^† instead while this promotion is live. Converting Avion points effectively earns 1.1 Asia Miles per dollar spent, versus the Neo card’s baseline of 1 Asia Mile per dollar, at least until you hit the 10,000-mile bonus cap.

Transfers from the Canadian currencies typically take up to about a week. You’ll also want to make sure the names and addresses on both the sending and receiving accounts match, as there have been several data points on RBC Avion transfers in particular being delayed due to mismatches between the systems.

Should You Transfer Points to Asia Miles?

Asia Miles has now devalued three times in under three years, following increases in October 2023, April 2025, and again on May 1, 2026. Fuel surcharges also rose by about a third in April, adding roughly $200 (USD) per long-haul segment on Cathay Pacific’s own flights. Long-haul business class costs roughly 40% more than it did before the first of those changes.

On the other hand, award availability for Cathay Pacific flights through Asia Miles is better than it is through other oneworld programs. If you’d like to give Cathay Pacific business class or First Class a whirl, booking directly through Asia Miles may still be your best option, as long as you can find the space.

In Canada, Cathay Pacific flies to Toronto and Vancouver, though it doesn’t offer First Class on either route. A one-way flight in business class from Hong Kong to either city now costs as follows:

The 7,501+ mile band that Toronto sits in also covers London, Paris, Sydney, and Auckland, so a one-way business class seat all the way to Australia or New Zealand costs the same 119,000 Asia Miles. Our multi-carrier award chart guide breaks down every route and distance band.

Those figures are for Cathay Pacific’s own flights. Partner awards in the same bands price slightly higher, at 93,000 Asia Miles in Vancouver’s band and 120,000 in Toronto’s for business class.

The oneworld multi-carrier chart is where things get more interesting, and it’s a genuine reason to hold the currency. It allows up to five stopovers, two connections, and two open-jaws on a single award, across a total itinerary distance of up to 50,000 miles. The one rule to plan around is that pricing follows the highest cabin flown on any segment, so a single First Class leg prices the entire itinerary at First Class rates. Keep your cabins consistent and it’s one of the most flexible award tools in the oneworld world. Notably, this chart came through the May 2026 devaluation untouched.

When it comes to partner airlines, the strongest remaining argument for Asia Miles is British Airways. Asia Miles passes through far lower carrier-imposed surcharges on British Airways flights than the British Airways Club does on the same seats, which can be worth several hundred dollars on a single long-haul booking. That advantage survived all three devaluations, and it’s still the program’s best trick. Our guide to taxes and fees on flights explains how those surcharges work.

The example I’d single out for Canadians is Toronto to London. British Airways flies the route with its Club Suite business class, and Asia Miles prices it at 63,000 miles one-way, in a band the May 2026 devaluation left untouched. Through the transfer bonus, that works out to roughly 57,300 Avion points, with surcharges several hundred dollars below what the British Airways Club collects for the same seat.

The same band covers New York to London, and a live search bears the pricing out. Both British Airways and American Airlines come up at an identical 63,000 miles, with $1,755 (HKD) in taxes and fees, about $310 (CAD).

First class is its own story. Cathay Pacific doesn’t fly it to Canada, so the play is positioning to a gateway like New York, where Cathay Pacific first class to Hong Kong prices at 160,000 Asia Miles one-way, or about 145,500 Avion points through the bonus. The first class chart came through the May 2026 devaluation entirely untouched, and award space in that cabin has largely become an Asia Miles member perk that partner programs rarely see. If flying it is on your list, this is the currency that opens the door.

The partner chart offers a cheaper first class door on the same New York to London route, where British Airways first class prices at 100,000 Asia Miles, about 90,900 Avion points through the bonus.

Asia Miles also isn’t always the cheapest way to fly Cathay Pacific. Atmos Rewards prices Cathay Pacific business class to Asia at 70,000 miles on a fixed chart, comfortably undercutting Asia Miles on the same seat. For more ideas on where the currency shines, see our roundup of seven brilliant Asia Miles redemptions.

Asia Miles and Status Points are separate currencies. Converted points land as Asia Miles, which you spend on flights, and they do nothing for your standing in the program. Status Points come only from flying Cathay Pacific and its partners, so topping up a balance won’t move you any closer to Silver, Gold, or Diamond.

Non-flight redemption options are also poor value and shouldn’t factor into your decision. Cathay Pacific’s lifestyle shop returns well under 1 cent per mile, and converting Asia Miles onward into Marriott Bonvoy runs at 2 Asia Miles to 1 Bonvoy point. Miles that arrive here should be earmarked for a flight.

Avion holders have a competing offer to weigh this month. RBC Avion is also running a 15% transfer bonus to American Airlines AAdvantage from August 1 to 31, which overlaps almost the entire Mega Miles window.

Those two offers compete for the same points, and they aren’t equivalent in what they unlock. Avion converts to Asia Miles at a straight 1:1, which is the better base ratio by a distance. But Avion is also the only Canadian program that transfers to AAdvantage at all, whereas Asia Miles can also be reached through Amex Membership Rewards, even at a weaker four-to-three rate.

If an AAdvantage redemption is in your plans, weigh how much of your Avion balance to send to Asia Miles this month. Points sent to Cathay Pacific can’t come back, and there’s no second route to AAdvantage waiting for you.

My honest take is that a 10% bonus isn’t a reason to move points into Asia Miles on spec, particularly into a program devaluing on a steady cadence. It is a good reason to move them now rather than in September if you already have a redemption in view.

Conclusion

Cathay Pacific is offering a 10% bonus on points converted into Asia Miles until August 28, 2026, capped at 10,000 bonus miles and open to Canadian residents outside Quebec. Be sure to register for the promotion before transferring any points, since conversions made beforehand won’t count.

With two financial partners in Canada and a longer list of hotel programs now included, this is a reasonable opportunity to top up a balance for a planned Asia Miles redemption. If you don’t have one in mind yet, your points are better left where they are.