I admit I wrote to EF CS directly, but posting here may be a faster way to get an answer.

I signed up for premium membership to monitor availability of an EY award. However, I discovered that for a couple of dates that I am NOT interested in, EY shows availability on both segments if I search for for India-AUH-USA, but no availability if I search for AUH-USA only. This is true both on EF directly and on etihad.com.

However, EF only allows setting award alerts for individual flights.

So, assuming that the same behavior may be shown for the date I AM interested in, EF is unable help me watch for an award becoming available, do I understand that correctly? The India-AUH-USA award may possibly open up, but EF can only be set to watch for the individual segments so it won't see it?