I was planning on booking an award seat in Aug 25 on OZ105, leaving NRT for ICN at 18:50, connecting from a flight arriving NRT at 15:00. OZ105 showed up as bookable last fall, but now that I'm ready to finalize the only available direct flight on that route leaves at 13:20. Unless evening direct flights come back, or NRT opens up to overnight stays, I might be in a position of having to go through Taipei to ICN just to be allowed to board the first leg to NRT. Ethiopian Airlines has evening flights, but very unfortuately not on this date.

Does anyone know of other options? Are there smaller airlines I could search separately that don't show up on the ITA Matrix site?