HI all

I am wanting to use my brothers family points (approx.30,000 - lucky me) to get myself a return ticket to BKK from Sydney. I am aware that points cannot be transfered so I am assuming I must buy the remaining points to bring me to 45,000 points and have them assign the ticket to my name.
Has anyone done this before if so could you give me a run down if this is correct, how long it takes to recieve the ticket (e-ticket??),are awards tickets given seat allocation/priority the same as a bought ticket and anything else I should know? I plan to go on the 23rd of April so I want to act quickly.


Thanks
Dean