Kiwi Flyer said:
I don't think a benefit of freeing up business class awards for QF Platinums exists, which would make your question moot.
If it really does exist, please tell me how. It is extremely difficult getting business award between NZ & US on QFF.
I was able to request a business class seat.. In fact the QFF agent offered to put in a seat request for business class. It will take up to 48 hours and I have to call back on Friday. However, there is no guarantee that this request will come through. I had to 'pay' the 2500 points telephone booking fee but it doesn't really matter.
I decided not to try the booking an cancelling. What I wanted to do was to get a seat released into U inventory then cancel my booking and use my AA points to then book it. That was until I found out that AA doesn't get access to all the seats that QF release into U class. For example, I could book economy seats online, but AA could not see any economy seats available on the same flight.
So now instead of costing 35000 AA points and probably about $30 in taxes, it will cost 72000 +2500 QF points and $120 in taxes.
But that's ok.. Better to use the points then lose them
