So, I'm going to HKG (from LHR) this December as a Cash+Miles award, and wouldn't mind going via NZ, since NZ business is rather fabulous.

As it is, there's no availability via NZ: so, instead, I'm going via Frankfurt with LH in C class. Which is a bit meh, but there we are.

There are -no- award allocations on NZ at the moment on that route (many days either side, too), which leads me to suspect that either there's a lot of Kiwis on their way home, or NZ simply haven't released their award availability quite yet.

Are there any tricks or patterns to discovering when NZ release their availability?