Originally Posted by pinniped

I looked at United.com.

Just looked again. Fly the 11st out (via SEA) and 27th back (via FRA), LH F both directions, 135k miles. The weekend (28th-31st) is tight for whatever reason, but then the following week is again wide open.

Oops. This trip is getting more expensive. Well, there's also some J availability...but I never pass up LH F when I see it. It can be a rare animal at times.

If you want to fly beyond FRA and United.com suddenly stops showing good availability when you query that beyond city, do a separate FRA-XXX query. I've noticed that sometimes United.com doesn't show every possible routing, especially with all of the potential partner options. Also query the OS and LX routes and remember you don't *have* to fly back out of the same city or in the same cabin. Sometimes I do a bunch of searches in AwardNexus before I figure out exactly what I want.

The good news is that the big pieces (the long-hauls with some good premium cabin options) are there.