I've been chatting to Flight Centre about a planned trip to Manchester in late September. They keep steering me to the QANTAS/Emirates routes, but I wnat to buy Economy, then upgrade to PE using points - at leats for the long legs. Seems that means I need to to stage through LHR - which is fine - done it plenty of times before but it does mean 2 stops. Anyone got any better ideas, or ways of working with Emirates using QFF points?