Our family is planning a trip to Oz/NZ this coming winter break and we were very lucky to be able to secure 4 J awards from US-Syd-Akl on QF for 62500 AA miles each (yea, F will be even better but this is already more than I have hope for given how hard it is to get any awards on QF to South Pacific). On the return, there was 1 QF F award available for our dates for Syd-US for 72500 AA miles which I put it on hold and route the rest of the family through HK. My husband has already ticketed his award with Syd-HKG in CX J and HKG-US in CX F. My 2 adult children will be in CX J for both segments (different CX flight home to US since they lived in different cities) . I also find a JL F award from NRT-US (pairing with Syd-HKG in QF J and HKG-NRT in CX J) for 102500 AA miles. My question is which F award do you think you would take. I heard good things about JL F. And our family would be able to enjoy HK together for the 1-2 days stopover there. I also think there is a possiblity that CX might open award space later and I might be able to get on the same CX flight with my husband without repricing the award. So how would you rank CX, QF and JL F if you can pick and choose?