<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by lalala:
I really liked the AS 110K or 120K award for two RT J tickets on QF. We redeemed our award in 1999, booked in 2000 and flew in 2001.
Sea-lax-akl-mel-syd-lax-sea all in J 
The rest we did with little hopper awards and domestic NZ and Australian tickets.
outstanding value and sorry to see it gone.
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Yes, that was an excellent award. My friend and I did EUG-SEA-LAX-AKL stopover AKL-MEL-SYD 23 hr stopover (due to no availability until that flight) a free bonus stopover. SYD-CNS. CNS-SYD-LAX bumped LAX-PDX 5:30PM flight (I have received many bump vouchers on that flight over the years), over night in LA. LAX-EUG the next morning. All domestic flights in F if available. My time line for redemption to flights is the same as yours. Did you have trouble finding availability on the trans pacific flights? It took almost a year for me to get the times/dates/flights that I ended up with. I never could get what I really wanted.
Dan