Thank you everyone for the wonderful replies, especially for a very informative post from fallinasleep.

I see I have confused Asia miles with Marco Polo.

I am dealing with credit card points and have limited FF accounts I can use (CX and MH being offered for One World carriers-AA, QF and BA are not options) and as I have MH already maybe I should stick with that. I was wondering if CX was more generous to its own FF for award availability even if a basic member?

I just wanted to try a CX premium cabin hence my post, I am trying to travel in Dec and into new year so also realise this may be very hard for 2 award seats in J or poss F. Does anyone know when CX open award inventory? However maybe a more direct routing is better as pointed out.

Thanks again for helping me clear a few points up!!

SYD/YYZ