Thank you to Princess Fiona, I now have 2 First Class Tickets between Sydney and Dubai, at Classic Award Rates but with Any Seat Awards benefits. I followed the advice you sent. It did have some difficulties, we are going on to Europe on Emirates, but the Any Seat benefits only applies to Qantas metal, so, we booked the connections as Classic Award Seats. Fuel surcharges were minimal, (I guess Emirates gets cheap Fuel), and taxes included on the Any Award Points, so all up, we are ticketed all the way to Dubai, Manchester, Copenhagen back to Dubai and home to Sydney in F Class, except 1 Leg in J, for less than $300.00 (and about 800,000 Points !!
Has anybody had success with this procedure in 2014, I thought I read somewhere that this method of obtaining Award Seats has been stopped, is it true ??