Originally Posted by
Oil-man
There are blogs around discussing the use of Lufthansa miles in this regard, and they say if you can see a 'Saver' reward in the United booking engine, you can ring up Lufthansa and they will book those specific flights, as these 'Saver' flights are available for Lufthansa as a member of *A.
That's not necessarily correct, as you have discovered. Airlines often make more tickets available to their own frequent flyers than to other airlines. Probably shouldn't be this way for a true alliance, but it happens. The advice to use the ANA search engine is a good one.