Hi, I am doing some dummy bookings to see what I can do when my wife and I get a chance to do some premium travel, sans kids, hopefully in a couple years. Our final destination is TPE from HNL, and I found RT J availability on KE which kind of works for only 105K RT. The routing for HNL-TPE takes us through NRT and ICN, both overnight stops. Since we wouldn't mind doing a multi-day stopover in Tokyo, I thought I would try to use the free stopover feature for Alaska award bookings for the trip.
I did an award search for HNL-TPE and got J availability all the way through on 01/22/2020 with stops in NRT and ICN. I then searched HNL-TPE again and found mixed cabin J availability on 01/27/2020, but the J portion was for NRT-ICN (overnight but less than 24H) ICN-TPE which works out perfect for me. I then found J availability on KE from TPE-HNL on 02/04/2020 through ICN on KE. Unfortunately, when I tried to plug the routing in with the dates I got an error saying
No search results were found for Tokyo-Tokyo Narita (NRT) to Taipei, TW (TPE).
Try selecting a different date.
Error Code: -1300
Since I was able to find available J seating in all the portions I wanted on certain flights, is this a situation that a phone call would be able to resolve? Or is there something in my routing that is not allowed? Is it because I can't stop-over in Tokyo?