Originally Posted by MarkXS

Agree with the KVS tool suggestion - I've bought into that at the nominal requested fee for the Platinum level, and find it well worth it. The only pain about that is it needs to be updated every couple of weeks, because KVS often needs to change the back-end to deal with changes from the airlines, and due to some old-school Microsoft code used to write the tool, it always needs a reboot (how 1999!) afterwards. It will show availability for all three alliances. You do have to sign up for ANA Japan and Qantas FF#s on their websites, in order to enter them in the KVS tool, for Star Alliance and for oneworld carriers respectively.