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| So much for trying to get one of 4,445 tickets... |
I had no chance even when it started.
The free Cathay Pacific plane tickets to Hong Kong from North America were up for grabs at 6pm PST or 9pm EST, and I learned the hard way that I should have been in the virtual queue at least an hour before then.
So perhaps it was no surprise when I tried to enter, my queue number was 183,682 in a bid to get one of the 4,445 tickets available...
Later Cathay announced the giveaway round trip tickets from the United States and Canada to Hong Kong were snapped up by 10.45am and 11.11am respectively.
Some people complained to a Hong Kong newspaper they were hoping to snag a ticket but found the website was slow or found thousands of people were already ahead of them in the queue before the actual time.
Those grievances were the same ones echoed by previous hopefuls in Singapore; seems nothing was done to improve the site.
It's not a fun gimmick if it's practically impossible to get a ticket. It turns people off and could make Cathay's reputation worse off, and in turn the government for how the ticket giveaway was conducted.
The next batch of tickets will be given to people in Australia later this month, followed by Japan and Taiwan in June and July...
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