Right, well thanks anyway for your help Alect. Not wedded to that date but sometime that week would be nice. SYD preferable, but if it's BNE/MEL I can live with that...

Hopefully at some stage we might get bumped up from the waitlist, but it seems like a bit of a black art that no one knows much about!

I'll look into going via HKG but not sure if this is allowable under the rules. I guess that would add an xtra continent?

Cheers
TM