<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by born sleepy:
I'm trying for an award trip MSP-SYD in November. I have UA MP miles, enough for a "saver" in F, but of course there are no seats and I'm in Y waitlisted for C or F.</font>
Your chance of clearing the wait list for a November flight is 1% as a 1P (maybe 50% as a 1K). November is not too busy, so there is some hope, but others will also wait-list for those awards and they will be ahead of you. The AC alternative is actually pretty good, take that if you want C, or accept Y on UA. I'm sure UA will keep issuing Y awards with C/F waitlist between now and November. Of course the better way on Star is Air NZ, maybe you should check for availability via AKL.