points, status, club and rtw

[MEL_Traveller]

If you do not need to do RTW you can do manual segment searches. I have completed all my bookings in J using rewards

HKG to ROME with Finnair, BKK to Rome with Finnair, ROME to BKK with Royal Jordanian. There was alot of seats flying out of Taipei flying the Chinese airlines a few months ago. With 2 seats it was very difficult to find availability compared to Single.

Even if you do want a RTW you can do manual searches

The other trick forgot to mention is that it really helps to get the month calendar view when using multi-city search. Do this by clicking ‘flexible with dates’ or whenever the exact wording is.

That way you can often piece together an itinerary at a glance, as it may be that dates either side of your preferred ones are more readily available.