I'm planning a 2-week trip to Australia for next year. I wanted to call ahead as soon as the flights were loaded, but if I did so my 5-day hold would expire before I was finished adding all of the segments.

As an EXP, I can ticket segments as part of a one-way all partner without worrying about change fees or cancellation fees if I changed the award to a OW mileage-based award. However, if this requires the cancellation of the award first, I've heard that QF often doesn't offer those segments again.

Do I just have to hope that the phone agents will allow me to extend the hold multiple times? If so, how successful are people in getting holds extended?

Thanks for the help!