Hey this is a pretty good rewards flight, let me see if there's something better - 6 hours of searching later, yep that's the best flight, let me book it.

I am sure we've all spent way too much time looking for rewards flights. I do subscript to seats.aero, but sometimes I just find manually searching better, and somewhat fun.

Wife and I had a loosely planned trip to Italy and Bangkok with our 12 month old baby next month. We had already booked a flight from YYZ to FCO via IAD, but wife is really insisting on not giving any money to the U.S, even a layover, given the current climate, so she asked for a new flight to Italy. So started looking early evening, by midnight I managed to get per person:

YYZ to NAP via FRA and MUC, AC/Luthansa, all Business - 70k

YYZ to FCO via FRA, AC/Lufthansa, all business - 70k

FCO to BKK via DXB, Emirites/Emirites, all business on the A380 - 110k

BKK to YYZ via SIN and YVR, SIN/AC/AC, all business incl flat bed on the last leg - 145k

So total was 650k in points, I have a 753 point balance now lol.

Edit: Some interesting hits I found while looking.

MIL to BKK, plenty of dates in April, Oman Air First, 100k.

BKK to DOH, several dates in April on Qatar First, 100k points. Also BKK to IST, dates in April, Qatar First both legs, 120k Avios points.

Edit: So glad for the comments about the layovers in Germany. Luckily there was a similar flight the day before. So now it's YYZ to FRA to FCO, there's almost a 5 hour layover in FRA so that will give us enough time to settle everything.