I know you werent replying to me, but thanks for your info and help all the same .

Ahhh you probably grabbed the NC1 I had my eye on, while trying to get my itin sorted for mid Sept . It was there for about 2 weeks, then as soon as I booked, poof - gone. At that point I had to decided I would split, and apply SWU to Mini DG first, but alas, too late, so then after advice from 1K line, I kept pnr together. I will take your advice as I KNOW you know the SYD USA route very well.

Have you got any data points on your people being on the waitlists for those flights this year? How quickly they cleared, if they were lower than 1K status etc?

Thanks again ^.

To NZPilot: thanks for your info also. Apparently NOW, its not FIFO on the waitlists, they are already sorting them by status as soon as someone is waitlisted, well at least that is what I was told by two 1K line agents. So that is why they seemed to think Mini DG 1P would end up too far down the lists. However, when I last checked, there was only 2 people ahead of us (on one pnr) in one direction and no one at all on the list in the other direction, so I guess if I jump in now and split, the damage could be quite minimal. I hope so, at least.

Only other issue I have is that 2 of our domestic CR1 upgrades have cleared, so I need a good agent to make sure those upgrades are not lost in the process of splitting . It is quite a large itinerary with both intl and domestic segments.