I'm a newbie on figuring out value in award stopovers. Can someone have rachmanus and tell me if there is any way to use a saver award to go from YVR to YYZ on a thursday night/friday and then EWR on sunday, all on a 12.5k award, or do i need to book the online available award yvr-yyz and then separately book (prob with cash) the short hop a few days later to EWR. It seems silly since i could book some award trips on the same types of flights just with a shorter stopover (as one award).
I have lots of different points and hybrid points if perhaps there is a way to save on the 2 flights with a different alliance.