Originally Posted by ompz

First time booking business awards so could use all any advice to help get these. Looking to fly F/J from San Francisco to Tokyo on October 26th and return from Osaka to Honolulu on November 8th for 2 people. Dates are strict for events, so not sure if this is realistic given the season and traveling on the weekend. We saved up a bunch of Chase and Amex points, so those would be the only transfer partners.

For JAL, it looks like the lowest redemption value is from Qatar and Cathay. BA availability looks low from the searches I've done and United has availability, but at a higher redemption rate. Award release and availability seems to vary and not a strict T-14, but maybe I'm not looking at the correct times. Is this accurate and given the different locations of the airlines, when does each airline respectively release their T-14 seats?