Awesome, thanks for the great reply. Not too late at all. I ended up booking 70 a&b on a 747-400, which is the first of the 2 seat rows in the back. Long haul return I booked 36 j&k upstairs on the a380 which also has just 2 seats in that row near Y+, looks like version 2 of the a380. We are going to New Zealand for most of the trip and the Jetconnect flights on the 73h are 3x3 seats, they put us in a&c with the middle open. The reservation desk did me well, I think they felt bad that the infant fare was $850 and it took an hour to get that figured out.