Her dates are somewhat flexible at this point.

She has 45,000 dividend miles and a Barclay's Mastercard (also has 60,000 skypesos, but I can't see them being useful in this case).

I need to figure out what cc's to go for (Sapphire/Ink Bold might get her 50,000 each, but making a spend over $5000 might be a struggle), or try a bank/brokerage deposit somewhere.

We probably need to book sooner as Dec is a hard month to find saver seats.

Since it is soooo far I'd like to help her out using some FT magic and get her a J class if possible.

The chart on the US Air site doesn't post anything for US-Australia.

The Partner chart shows a *A table, but no definitions of where Australia is 80Y/120J South&Central Asia?
80Y/110J South Pacific?

I know I saw somewhere that flying North American-hkg with a stopover in SYD was cheaper in mileage than North America-Australia. Not sure if that will help us or not.

Any advice would be very welcome.