Hope this is a good place to ask my question.

I've read on TPG about FB award travel to NOU and that got me interested. I went to flyingblue.com and found quite decent availability for LAX-SYD-NOU.

The problem is that I'm based in SEA and there's no availability SEA-LAX-SYD-NOU, though if searched independently there's plenty. Why is that? Do you think if I call, the agent will be able to help me and piece together such itinerary?

The reason why I want to do that is that returning flight NOU-NRT-SEA is much shorted than NRT-LAX and I also I can skip LAX-SEA. So here I am -- can you share your experience?

I'm not sure I'll be able to find a good agent on the phone who would go out of her ways to help me. If I know it is possible, then at least I can be insisting

Thanks in advance!