After reading all these changes I'm less than thrilled, however with 3 months to go I still can redeem rewards at the old rate

I have just over 300K in my One pass account that I was saving for a QF award (I have zero status on CO)

I have been searching the past couple of years (albeit not very hard) for a QF award that would fit my vacation schedule.

It appears that we are going to be told to bend forward with the next set of changes re: the QF awards

I wonder if I should try to be more diligent in finding a QF award (2 tix) now in J/F or just say screw it, use my One World miles (and EXP status on AA) to go down under, then use my CO miles for more simple trips domestically or just trade some, transfer some to AGR, and burn some domestically to get the most value for the mile?

just trying to get a gauge at what the OP experts would do

for the record, I have no interest in the series 4, 5a, or 10 awards that are being prepped for the bend foward factor. Ditto on domestic F class since Y is fine for me on award tix domestically.