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Jan 14, 2019 | 10:59 am

#673

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Join Date: Dec 2005

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Originally Posted by beagleflyer1977

Looking to go LAX/SFO to SYD/BNE/MEL in Biz/First. See only 1 First Class ticket available in June, absolutely nothing else. Am I doing it wrong or is there really no availability out through Dec 2019?

Welcome to the nightmare that is OW Australia premium awards....

When I was looking last, (and this was on QF) they only release ONE F seat for any given flight. (It is why they tend to last past the first few minutes after release.)

Look at DFW-SYD. They release them in pairs on occasion.

When I was hunting, I only looked at the gateway pairs. LAX-SYD, DFW-SYD, LAX-MEL, etc. Figuring if I got the award on the 14 hr flight, I could figure out what to do with the 'positioning' flights on either end (fly in Y, buy a ticket, etc)

GL

Its miserable.

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