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Old Oct 13, 2014, 6:55 pm
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jawnbc
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Auckland NZ
Programs: NZ Gold Elite, AS, AC, QF
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booking CX reward travel with AS points

Having squirrelled away enough points, and having researched things via this forum, I rang AS Mileage Plan to book reward travel in J class (really U class) as follows:

AKL HKG JFK x/HKG AKL, June 2015

Having used CX's own searchable tool I had some flight optioned identified. Surprisingly, AS was able to confirm segments that didn't show up when I searched CX's reward tool I could nothing non-stop ex AKL, but they got me on the perfect flight AKL HKG, in business class.

Unfortunately we couldn't find anything to get me back to NZ when I need to in early July. So I have 3/4 segments booked and will ring back weekly until we can either confirm the last segment (possibly to SYD or MEL and I'll buy a cheap trans-Tasman flight to AKL) or cancel and get the points reinstated.

The AS agent was super-nice and helpful and patient. Kudos! My question to you folks: have any of you been successful adding a missing segment weeks or months after making your initial booking on CX using AS points?

We looked at splitting the reward between CX and either QF or KE, but no joy.
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