BA.com is no good for these complex itineraries and although Expedia, opodo etc have multi-city search options, I couldn't get them to show the sale fares that I was after.
aa.com is great.
Because there's only 6 fields, some creativity with the routing is required, there's not space for JFK-LAX and LAX-HNL so I put JFK-HNL which was great because it threw up JFK-PHX-HNL both ways on US which books into First and thus 210TP rather than the AA JFK-LAX which is proper Business Class thus 140TP. Try things like LON instead of LHR if not getting the 'right' answer.
It's really important to use the radio button selection as per the above, especially Search By Schedule and show 50 flight results.
What is slightly annoying with aa.com is that it disallows a connection on the return at JFK onto BA2 despite there being a legit connecting time and ba.com allows it (but ba.com won't allow booking of this complex itinerary on BA, US and AA flight numbers), the result is BA4 which misses an early LCY-AMS flight and also a LHR-HEL-AMS/BRU opportunity to gain even more TPs!
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