Hello,
I was hoping to start a 140K oneworld trip in February next year. My first chosen continent is South America so looking for a flight to Santiago. Ideally from Canberra, but getting to Sydney by other means is no problem. I also wouldn't mind having a <24 stop over in Auckland but if I don't it is not too much of a problem.
Knowing that SCL flights are often hard to get, I have tried to be proactive and be organised 353 days in advance despite the fact that I know I will get a point penalty to add the extra flights later on.
My planned trip is as follows
Canberra - Sydney - (Auckland) - Santiago
Santiago (or Lima) - Miami
Toronto - London
London - Cape Town
Johannesburg - Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Canberra
There have been no Y award seats released for 8,9,10,11 and now 12 Feb. There have been 1 award J seat on each of 8,9,10 on the codeshare QF321 but nothing on QF27 (I don't mind whether I go on the direct or codeshare - as I say, going on the codeshare I would probably organise some time in AKL). I don't really want to go business for two reasons - one I only have 220K points although I could possibly get the rest through applying for Amex Platinum and would like to still have a points balance regardless, but secondly, I don't know if it will be harder later on to get J seats rather than Y.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I was hoping to start a 140K oneworld trip in February next year. My first chosen continent is South America so looking for a flight to Santiago. Ideally from Canberra, but getting to Sydney by other means is no problem. I also wouldn't mind having a <24 stop over in Auckland but if I don't it is not too much of a problem.
Knowing that SCL flights are often hard to get, I have tried to be proactive and be organised 353 days in advance despite the fact that I know I will get a point penalty to add the extra flights later on.
My planned trip is as follows
Canberra - Sydney - (Auckland) - Santiago
Santiago (or Lima) - Miami
Toronto - London
London - Cape Town
Johannesburg - Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Canberra
There have been no Y award seats released for 8,9,10,11 and now 12 Feb. There have been 1 award J seat on each of 8,9,10 on the codeshare QF321 but nothing on QF27 (I don't mind whether I go on the direct or codeshare - as I say, going on the codeshare I would probably organise some time in AKL). I don't really want to go business for two reasons - one I only have 220K points although I could possibly get the rest through applying for Amex Platinum and would like to still have a points balance regardless, but secondly, I don't know if it will be harder later on to get J seats rather than Y.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.