Planning a trip for two almost exactly a year from now LAX - NRT and curious on best strategy to get two saver seats in J. What I have to work with as of today is about 300K chase UR points and my wife and I each have around 115K miles in each of our AA accounts. Due to some scheduling issues our ideal travel days are April 6 2019 out and April 20 returning. I know that makes things more difficult being Saturday both ways.

I pose the question now because I just started looking today and see that Singapore's schedule extends to two days past our ideal departure date with no waitlist available so I may have just missed it...unless it's never available on a saturday. ANA booked via Virgin Atlantic would be wonderful and I know they sometimes have Saturday via the United site but not sure I'd ever find the RT availability required for that award. Other options? Or do I not stress about it this early and work it out later?

No elite status. Used to be AA PLT but no longer travel for work so that was lost.