Originally Posted by
keithggg
Would a travel agent be of any help? I'd gladly pay a couple of hundred dollars to be able to cash in these miles for tickets. I just can't see myself flying coach for 27 hours...
Nope. There are some services that will do the research and book a FF ticket for you.
It's also not 27 hours from DEN-AKL. It's actually about 16 hours of flight time plus whatever your connection time is (for about 17.5 hours of travel on the short itineraries). I know it's nit-pickey, but I'm doing this flight in coach in a month and am painfully aware of exactly how much time I'll spend not in C.
ANA is All Nippon Airways. You'll have to sign up for their FF program in order to access the award inventory search site. You can get to the award search
here
1K is a 100 thousand mile flier (top tier with UA)