Need some itinerary help
 

Could the kind folks here point me on the right direction on how to plan for an itinerary? This time I am not looking for a mileage run but more on a last-minute itinerary planning. Skipping the details, I found out this morning that I need to find an itinerary for my wife and I from SFO to Japan. The premise of the travel is that:

June 25: SFO -> CTS (Sapporo) (maybe via NRT?)
June 3: MMB -> ??? -> SFO

I've done some poking around already. It is not hard for the SFO->CTS (or NRT) leg and return. However, there isn't anything that I could find from MMB->CTS (or NRT). Does anyone know how I can go about this?

We'd prefer Star Alliance flights if possible but at this stage, we care about the itinerary and the price more. Please help. Thanks.

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Why try to guess where the connection(s) will be made? Just go online and enter MMB-SFO, and the airline or travel agent should display the available itineraries.

Use the tools on www.staralliance.com to identify routing possibilities.

Kayak shows dozens options for the itinerary MMB-SFO. Most have two stops. You can limit your search to *A if you want, which means you'll be flying ANA. The shortest route there is MMB-HND-KIX-SFO, about 17 hours total which is not bad, considering.