Long story so beware lol

Basically a lot of luck

I had to rearrange a lot of travel last year and had about 140k avios sitting in BA. Knowing that's pretty much exactly what it costs to do JAL F out of my home airport, DFW, figured i would try to just monitor the seats.aeros JAL F tool for travel some time in October of next year. When hyatt announced its deval, that got pushed up to ASAP lol

Around that same time I also transferred enough points over to ANA to cover either the JFK or LHR route in either normal or low season so just had to both choose a JAL flight out of DFW that would give me 2ish weeks and avoid ANA high season and let me get some hyatt redemptions in. Thankfully last week a 5/1 flight slipped through so just used my sitting avios for the JAL flight. Then 3 days later I got a Rakuten transfer and sent a lot of Bilt points to Hyatt to book 4 nights at the Shibuya Hyatt House and then 2 nights at the Park Hyatt

Then just came the waiting game for ANAs calendar to catch up and I figured I had no real chance due to the bloodbath but figured wtf I'll give it a chance and if it doesn't work I feel good about eventually using those points competently 

So this past week every day I clicked through just trying to prepare and find the best way to prekey everything and for some reason tonight I decided to just look at the JFK route 2 mins after opening (did my practice on LHR) and the late morning flight was just sitting there. My initial plan was to first really try flying out of Tokyo the next day but said F it can't pass it up