Well I didn't think SYD-HNL would be busy in L, given all I read about is SYD-SCL.

Hm I wonder if something is happening in HNL on 09/19/2008? L0 at the moment on QF (and also AA) for SYD-HNL.

I was just casually glancing through EF for my LLGLOB26 itinerary. I didn't even think of trying to book/issue it till March next year as I didn't think any of the segments would be particularly busy ones. But on the Australian Frequent Flyer forum I'm told that HNL can be hard to obtain in L even at 330 days out.

Interestingly there're L9 and L7 availabilities on QF and AA flight numbers respectively for every other day they fly in Sept - just not the 19th.

I've now sought the help of a TA, hoping that he'd have some sort of expertise with AA/QF waitlists (he was great at clearing SQ waitlists, albeit in significantly higher fare buckets...). The other reason why I enlisted the help of a TA was the possibility of a longer ticketing time limit, plus he's willing to plate on AA ticket stock unlike a lot of TAs in Australia. ^

The only flexibility I have is moving HNL from the start to the end of my trip, which means I'd be doing HNL-SYD on 03OCT2008. Unfortunately I'm constrained by a limited time frame as this trip is done during a mid semester 2 week non-teaching period of uni. Plus HNL-SYD is looking even busier than SYD-HNL. But I'm thinking that this way I can issue the ticket without the first interregional sector open dated so I'm charged the LL fare and not the peak season fare.

I suppose my AA PLT status won't help much with clearing a QF waitlist/AA codeshare waitlist?

Any thoughts on this situation?

Sorry for the long and rambling post...