The ultimate winners could be travelers looking to burn their AAdvantage miles as I can already see
pretty good award availability for next year... I'm even tempted to book an award for myself
Right now there's
pretty good award availability on this route as flights have only recently been loaded.
As you point out earlier in the comments, close - in there is
pretty good award availability, and being willing to pay a change fee on an economy booking is a great way to get there.
Not exact matches
But they have a
good award chart, especially their non-peak
availability, and it's
pretty easy to earn AA miles.
Availability in the other direction (Auckland to Doha) is
pretty good do and, in this case, there are actually 4 Business Class
awards available on the very first Qatar Airways non-stop flight between Auckland and Doha:
If you're trying to find
award availability on a OneWorld airline BritishAirways.com is the
best place to start — the airline may be
pretty useless at most things but its site is great for OneWorld
award searches.
If you can see that there's
award availability for a trip you'd like to take then that's a
pretty good reason to buy miles....
In my experience, finding
award availability with Flying Blue has been
pretty easy so I think it's a
good choice for families to consider.
When both the Asia Miles website and British Airways sites show the same
availability, it's a
pretty safe bet that American Airlines will be able to see those open
award seats as
well.
It's easy to find an
award flight to Brussels on oneworld alliance member airlines, and
availability is
pretty good throughout the year.
That being said, LH generally seems to have
pretty good C
award availability, which makes sense if you look at how they configure their cabins:
Award availability became really outstanding when they put an Airbus A380 on the route, and the aircraft has a
pretty good business class product as
well.
While economy
award space on American Airlines is still
pretty good for many different routes, there has been a lot of grief lately over business class
availability at the SAAver level.