Originally Posted by
sawdust
The travel will be in June 2011. The skywards service center told me to book rewards as early as possible to guarantee seats.
june 2011 is far off... suggest you as other have, buy econ ticket then upgrade, you still have time to use your miles for reward, so as time gets closer you can look out for rewards availability. if you cant find an upgrade reward on your initial booking, you can change the dates for ones that have. Of course there might also be a change ticket/reissuing fee.