Originally Posted by deltame

Fuel charge is not a concern if not flying BA metal. The difficulty might resides with finding availability of JL or CX flights to redeem on the BA website -- I tried a number of times online with different dates/months for JFK-HKG for example, but found on rare occasions that only one of the direction is available on CX.

I'd appreciate people sharing tips on how they are able to find a RT (say depart and return within a couple weeks) on CX or JL.