How will partner airlines award redemption work ? Counted as business class such as 40,000 one way SYD-KUL ?

There is also a Radisson and a Hilton, both are reasonably priced with shuttle bus connection

Well, good news ANA is re-considering flying to Australia !! It may take a while though, always good to have a third carrier on any route! Roy

Adam, For my last trip I only flew JAL first class from Narita to Sydney. I left Sydney on Air China first class to Beijing and between Beijing and Tokyo I used ANA Dreamliner business class.The problem with not departing on a carrier home base (this case Qantas) is that the partner carrier's (J...

petrhsr, Don't disagree with you having completed that NRT-SYD on 21 Jan recently, what a pity after a 3-month period it will revert back to the old 777-200. Roy