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Old Nov 24, 2008 | 3:52 am
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Noelene
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Award Advice and strategy, please

Maybe as we say here in Australia... "yer dreaming"

This is the most complicated award I have tried to put together,I find United are happy to relieve you of miles and hurtle you to the States, heck sometimes they take your SWU and give you cheesecake! I have booked those easily online- no dramas

So I was hoping to go from MEL to LHR on *A partners in June2009, from there we will fly to the States and begin requalifying for 2010.

MEL-LHR is 100k miles, in economy, 120K in business, well worth it I think.

So I spent days reading about starnet blocking, ANA tool usage, and lots of other stuff and managed so I thought with ANA tool availability for
MEL-SIN-BKK-LHR and returning there were a few options I would be thrilled with.

I felt pretty ready to speak to an agent, she thanked me for my business..
and shot me down on my first flight request! "I only have economy, honey"

What I was hoping was, you all with huge experience in dealing with agents could give me strategies to deal with an agent, It won't be a huge tragedy if we end up in economy, but Business would sure be nice

Sorry for the long post
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