Working on it. 0/4 so far.
I followed his Instructions and it worked, there is talk about calling AS at night times and it took me 4 HUCA:
“Hi, I want to fly Emirates First Class from Houston to Bangkok. I was just on the line with another agent, and she had found the space and given me the flight info when my phone was disconnected. She said she found the space in the old system. Can I give you the flight info?”
When I said “old system,” this agent actually interjected, “That’s the right way.”
She took the flight info that I had found on Expert Flyer and disappeared for a few minutes, coming back to tell me that she had found the award space in First Class and it would cost 100,000 miles. Success!
http://www.milevalue.com/how-to-book-emirates-first-class-with-alaska-miles-beyond-march-28/