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Apr 12, 2007 | 9:53 am

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Originally Posted by number_6

QF blacks out peak flights/dates, so some specific flights will never have any award seats. You have to be flexible to take a less popular day or time of day, and you'll be fine.

There is no way to use a Oneworld award (the topic of this forum) for travel entirely within Australia, as the only carrier is QF. You can get a 2nd carrier if you fly SYD-AKL on LAN. Otherwise the award would have to be to/from Australia to get a 2nd carrier (CX, BA, JL).

I will be traveling to either SYD or MEL via AKL on Air New Zealand which is a Star Alliance partner. Maybe I could use LAN for the AKL-SYD or SYD-AKL, and perhaps be eligible for the OneWorld Award. I looked at LAN's schedule. the connection from AKL to SYD is not too good, and I'd probably stick with Air New Zealand, but for the return, I could take LAN from SYD to AKL. Would this work? Would I be eligible for OneWorld Award? Thanks.

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