Originally Posted by bruther

Hi All, I would appreciate any advice from my fellow FT'ers.
My wife and I have booked J class award travel from Ottawa to Auckland, New Zealand. We will be outbound Feb 26/06, and as there was no availability on Air NZ, we where routed through Vancouver on AC 33 (YVR-SYD), The only availability on AC33 was Y class but the very helpful AP agent said that she would forward a note to the YVR airport to put us on the upgrade waitlist.
As this is a very long flight, and we a fairly flexible (up to Mar 3/06), I was wondering if we should just hold still until departure, look at alternate dates, or wait for something to open on Air NZ?
By the way, we will be returning from Singapore on April 4 in Raffles throught LAX, so I really lucked out on that one.
PS. we are both retired and up until retirement in 2000, we both had elite status for a number of years but unfortunately only basic members since then.
I really appreciate the collective wisdom and any advise you can share.
Thanks