My trip to China is finally booked, well most of it anyway. Some parts of the travel are going to be left until the last minute when I actually know where I need to be; it appears to be in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Beijing. I am flying out of JFK airport in NYC, and the toss up on which airport to fly out of  (I would have preferred closer EWR) really came down to the Airline, Frequent Flyer Programme, and the total travel time. Cathay Pacific is a really good airline from my experience in traveling around Asia, and better yet they are part of OneWorld so on these long flights I am able to get some more miles to use on personal trips.