Oh dear, yet another wrinkle.
I am part way through booking my third Oneworld award and have already spent most of the points on AKL-KIX(Osaka)-LHR. Here's hoping the remainder goes smoothly!
For the remaining flights, when looking at dummy bookings, (actual dates still around 12 months away), many of the routes use CX transiting Hong Kong. On a previous occasion this caused difficulties, something about an agreement between CX and the Government making a HKG stopover mandatory, but we will be in a bit of a hurry. Do we know anything about the current situation?