I am currently booked as follows

MEL - SIN - PVG - NRT - CHC - MEL on a circle asia airfare - Business Class

The first leg is waitlisted on SQ - seats available, just not in the class (D) the ticket has to be booked in. So I have suggested the following as an alternative routing.

MEL - AKL - SIN on Air New Zealand.

The travel agents states I can't do that as I am can't go through Auckland twice (I know I'm not - but the travel agent the company uses comes up with lots of excuses - rather than have to look up the rules.)

If they come back and say I can't go through NZ twice. Is that true? I am going from SW Pacific to SE Asia to N Asia to SW Pacific. No where does it say I can't do internal SW Pacific flights at the start and end of the trip.

(I wrote Circle Pacific originally when it should have been Circle Aisa - edited to change)

Sure the short answer would be go on the direct flight earlier (they do have 3 a day) but I would need to leave a day ealier to go direct and this routing would allow me to requalify whereas a direct flight doesn't. So if I have to leave a day earlier, I might as well get some benefit from it (and whats a few extra hours on the plane for people that are reading this)?