Originally Posted by
littledude
One thing to remember--although ANA site has availability it is not always available to US---LH has awards for their members but not the rest of the Star Alliance
If LH has awards for their members only, they won't show on the ANA tool. Likewise, if ANA has awards available only to their own members, I don't believe they show under the "Use Star Alliance Member Airlines" area, which is where all of us are performing our searches. So ANA should still be a very good indicator of availability for US DM members looking to redeem on *A partners. The ANA tool is only showing inventory in O, I, X, and D (I believe - for AC) classes.
Restricted awards for an airline's members comes out of other classes (for US, P for first, J for business, and I don't recall for coach).