Bora Bora.. where art thou?

[hummel]

Fellow AFF'ers,

I am after some advice on getting to PPT. I've started looking at a variety of options but wanted to see if I'd missed anything. In point form:

1) 2 Passengers
2) Have a booking Hilton Bora Bora January 2nd-7th for our Honeymoon. Need to be there for the 2nd or earlier.
2) Have approx 100k Amex points, 100k US Airways miles and around 40k Velocity points.
3) Happy to leave from MEL, SYD or BNE.
4) Prefer to fly Business obviously.

What I've been thinking:

1) Flying AirNZ MEL-AKL-PPT - If i can get availabilty!
2) Flying to HNL using Velocity points then Hawiann Airlines to PPT?
3) Paying for economy! :shock:

Any thoughts/ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

 

[docjames]

Would try US airways on NZ initially. Can buy points if you don't have enough for the flights you want.

 

[aikman]

Buying AA points could be an option. Air Tahiti is an AA partner so a QF/TN combo via AKL should be bookable as a South Pacific award.

 

[kamchatsky]

Definitely use Air NZ. You can use Awardtravelr or ANA to check availability. I enjoyed it very much last time. You should get Y award no problems but J is very hard to get.

 

[Keith009]

After our Maldives adventure, we've been looking at Bora Bora also. Very keen on the answers in this thread.

The NZ schedules seem a little infrequent which makes teeing up award seats ex-AU a little more tedious. Have LH miles which about to expire so would be good to use them for an award to PPT.

 

[phantompharter]

Definitely use Air NZ. You can use Awardtravelr or ANA to check availability. I enjoyed it very much last time. You should get Y award no problems but J is very hard to get.

Am looking at this *A redemption right now for May/June next year. I am seeing plenty of Y availability like you mentioned Edison... but no J anywhere.
Do these ever become available on this flight in anyone's experience?