Originally Posted by thomas22

So finally, after months of trying I was able to book one seat to SYD at about 320 days out for 70,000 miles.

I will keep trying for the other seat I need or will have to pay cash if necessary and then book the return when they become available. We were hoping to go in December for the 25th anniversary or our honeymoon there (used UA miles for first at 120,000 each round trip) but could not find any reasonable business miles seats in that time period and I am not paying $11-13k pp roundtrip. Current cash price is about $6.6k roundtrip so say 4.7c /mile ignoring $53.70 in mileage fees)

Can anyone tell me how to choose seats? Can't do anything online with alaska, do I call alaska or fiji?