Hi all... looking for ideas or advise (or just commiseration, if I just need to keep slogging/hoping). I'm currently trying to find flights for the final leg of our actually-around-the-world Oneworld booking (pending ticketing of my most recent change... sigh). The final leg is getting back to Brisbane from Japan (preferably Tokyo... but open to other ideas) in late January 2025.
We're flying economy (x4 - 2 adults, 2 under 12s).
Route options I've found using all (except Qatar) Oneworld carriers (yay
www.flightsfrom.com) that could work for us are:
NRT-BNE
HND-SYD-BNE
NRT-MEL-BNE
NRT-HKG-BNE
HND-HKG-MEL-BNE
NRT-HKG-SYD-BNE
HND-MNL-SYD-BNE
NRT-MNL-SYD-BNE
Obviously least legs preferred, but I'd take whatever I can get.
I generally have no problems finding reward seat options flights other than the "somewhere-to-Australia" leg (i.e. Japan to MNL/HKG seem to have decent options, plenty of options for SYD/MEL to BNE), but almost nothing for Japan to Australia / HKG to Australia / MNL to Australia.
Early this week I did find a single HND-SYD (JAL) and SYD-BNE (QFF) option that showed up on the Qantas site for about 3 days, but despite 7 different calls (and 4 hours on calls), none of the agents I spoke to could see the availability (and its now gone from Qantas).
So... is this a case of stuff hasn't been released yet? Or it's all be snaffled already? Is it likely any more seats will be released in future (I have until early September to add segments)? Any other route options anyone can suggest (noting that I'm a bit total-miles-constrained... I have 6,745 miles left to get home... so NRT-SIN-BNE is too far for example).
Thanks for any advice!