Hi everyone.
I'm trying to book an award flight HKG to ICN and was thinking about using KE.
I called DL and the helpful agent found me two seats in J for 45000 miles. Unfortunately while ticketing he got an error an claimed KE has blackout date on my outbound (9/14) but leaving on 15 would be fine.

I check other routing opportunities and one solution that would be good to me is
HKG-NRT on DL on 9/14
--staying in NRT for just 22 hours then it wouldn't be a stopover
NRT-ICN on KE on 9/15
ICN-HKG on KE on 9/20

I call DL back but this time the lady can't find anything with KE and even says that the inbound has no availability (2 hours before it had 4 open seats!)

Can anyone help me? At least I'd check on expertflyer before calling again.

Thank you
maclover