Has anyone had luck adding segments in the South Pacific to bookings? Aeroplan search turns up many phantom searches, i.e. MEL-BNE-SYD-AKL-RAR, but if I just go and search AKL-RAR I get nothing.

Are routings like this bookable through the call centre? I'm looking to do IAD-AUH(stop)-MEL-AKL-RAR(destination) as much in J as possible, but before calling I wanted to see whether anyone knows if these are bookable at all without playing hopscotch. I'm also considering NAN and PPT, and getting similar things. Phantom segments seem to be a NZ phenomenon, while jumping around multiple destinations unnecessarily seems to be with Virgin Australia.