OK I'm confused in more ways than one, but this looks like the place to find help.

A few years ago I subscribed to KVS briefly, Diamond level. My main objective was to find biz class award flights between RDU and OTP using Skymiles. The DL site only searched DL/KL/AF, and my experience was that it was often necessary to use RO and calling DL was very frustrating.

After a hiatus of booking international award trips, I again had a need. Specifically I was looking to go PHL-BOM around New Year's, PHL-FCO next spring, and possibly IAD-OTP. I plunked down the $45 for a 6-month diamond subscription.

What puzzled me was that in doing the search for BOM, I found availability on the DL website, but not on KVS. It took some work, I had to play with it segment by segment, but I eventually found it. In fact, the actual routing involves 3 of the 4 segments on VS, but when I do the search on KVS I get no VS flights - only DL/KL/AF.

I know there have been issues with DL. I guess I'm wondering if someone can tell me what's going on. It's hard to imagine that DL.dumb could actually be more useful than KVS, but is that the case? Assuming I am only interested in using KVS for Skypeso availability, have I wasted my money?