JL flight booking problems

[craney]

I hope this is the correct forum.

I can see $799 return fare on ITA Matrix for CBR - NRT return next July with these flights:

8 July CBR-MEL QF815 1500/1610
9 July MEL-NRT JL774 0005/0905

16 July NRT-MEL JL773 1030/2155
19 July MEL-CBR QF814 0815/0920

(though would prefer MEL-CBR in the afternoon)

And can get the JAL website to give that result for one adult, but when I enter two adults and a 15 year old it returns a total of $2800 or so. I entered our names and passport numbers etc for the $2800 option but then got a "flight not available" message. It didn't say which one wasn't available.

Does anyone have a suggestion for how to successfully search for and get any of these fares? We are flexible for dates within the ACT school holidays (5 - 18 July).

I'm QF WP so prefer Oneworld airlines and a few hours in a QF First lounge

 

[ftm]

Am not sure where/what country ITA is getting it's availability from, but there is no O Class on those dates, or really anything around them, so that's why the fares aren't giving you what you want.

 

[craney]

Success! Sort-of.

I've booked QF/JL CBR-MEL-NRT on 8/9 July, and return cough-NRT-MEL 16 July and MEL-CBR 19 July for $900 each. We got O class on the forward journey (so no preselected seating for that sector).

It would have cost over $1000 each if we flew NRT-MEL-CBR on the return. Looking forward to going for the first time, and for our daughter to use her high school Japanese for real