I am neither, my father (who has the miles) is Platinum Elite. Everytime we call, the agents don't tend to have any idea how to get to Australia, they always try routing through Tokyo (which requires an overnight). Malaysia Airlines, while taking longer, also requires stops in places which aren't great for people of my religion, and as such, would like to stay away from Dubai.

The CO1 to CO902, does not require the overnight, and is definately what I want. I may have to just accept the fact that I won't be able to get those flights.

I did a GUM-CNS search for 8/12 returning 8/20 on continental and the only award seats that were available are easypass (which are 120k miles EACH way).

I did a search on ITN and found that on the flights I want, there are still 10 or so BF seats in non-award classes. What are the chances these seats are converted to award fare classes anytime soon?

-dave

[This message has been edited by planetmn (edited Jan 04, 2004).]