So following on from the discussion about stopovers and transits in HEL, I tried to add the final flights to my OWA as they were released today: NRT-KUL-MEL with MH to get me home. I was met with a situation that will be familiar to many, but was new to me - the agent telling me these flights were only available for new bookings and could not be added to existing bookings. She suggested I paid for them separately. Yeah, nah.
I was so surprised, I ended the call to regroup. Having done that, I idly entered my entire itinerary into the multi-city and to my greatest surprise, I was able to pretty much reconstruct it from what was still available. The only real modification was to do MEL-CMB via SYD, and to do DEL-LHR direct rather than via HEL. So I booked it all online as a new itinerary:
MEL-SYD-CMB-DEL-LHR (QF, UL, UL and BA - all in J)
LHR-HEL-GDN (AY - final sector in Y as that route is all Y on an ATR72)
HEL-HND (JL - J)
NRT-KUL-MEL (MH - all in J).
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I'm quite happy with that. Now I need a flight to change on my original booking so I can cancel it with no penalty. There's 11 months for that to happen, so fingers crossed.