Until a year or so ago I had no problem booking 2 first or business awards from SEA to JNB. This year I started booking for one person in November of 2013 for an April 2014 award ticket. Every day looking finally secured one date for the outbound and one for the return. Frustrating experience but finally got a United flight to JFK and the SA non stop to JNB. The return was LH via FRA. To obtain multiple premium awards seems almost hopeless unless you want to burn for the Standard Award.