When CO pulled out of the Sth Pacific I was left with some 200,000 CO miles. I recently wanted to use them to fly from US to NZ but it turned out to be such a hassle I gave up (weird routing on CO and then only to Cairns via everywhere first. Difficult to get onto Quantas and a hassle. Once you get your tickets and commence travel I was told the return date is totally locked in . No changes. Very weird!!) I then decided to use them go between New Zealand and Australia.(on Quantas I guess) CO informed me I couldnt do this. To do this I had to first fly to NZ from the US on a one pass reward which I dont want to do

Was any provision made for the former "down under" CO loyal passengers to use their mileage in their own region?? There was a lot of us with a lot of miles.

How do I get to NZ/Aussie using my onepass miles? Want to go to Auckland and Perth and be able to change the return dates if I need to. Can anyone help??

[This message has been edited by kiwi (edited 03-07-99).]