Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan - LM flight tracker site down?

http://www.lmoffice.com/FlightTracker/

I havent been able to get on this site for a while. Is it down for good or temporarily?


For those who dont know its where you can type in AS flights and then receive emails when F opens, UG become available for gold or mvp, and when fare prices change. Of course it has a 6 or 8 hour lag time but still better than nothing or having to check AS site every 8 hours

I used to use it all the time and it stopped working for me months ago but at least back then the site came up. Its not coming up for me now at all.

I used to use it all the time and it stopped working for me months ago but at least back then the site came up. Its not coming up for me now at all.worked for me 2 weeks ago:cool:

I just added a flight yesterday, never actually used it before.

I just added a flight yesterday, never actually used it before.

Was just on this site last night or two ago and was working fine... but odd its not functioning...

but it seems to hit these phases occasionally...

Can work well though ^

Seems to be fully functional now.

Seems to be fully functional now.
excellent

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Seems to be fully functional now.
excellent

Postacular ^

Now to buy flights tonight and sign up for the alerts...

It just worked for me again, Coolio. It had stopped working for me for a few months back. Right after i made a donation. Glad to see it works becasue its a very good free service

Did anyone else notice that under server statistics it says "last updated ~1500 minutes ago?" Does that mean it's not going to be accurate?

It sometimes (once every few months) goes down when AS decides to make a huge "improvement" to alaskaair.com - since the service relies on AS's web site, if their site is down, or makes significant changes to their design, I have to update it on my side as well.

In its history, it has never been down for more than 2-3 days though, so if it's ever down just shoot me an email and wait a day or so and check back :D

It sometimes (once every few months) goes down when AS decides to make a huge "improvement" to alaskaair.com - since the service relies on AS's web site, if their site is down, or makes significant changes to their design, I have to update it on my side as well.

In its history, it has never been down for more than 2-3 days though, so if it's ever down just shoot me an email and wait a day or so and check back :D

Thanks for maintaining the site! :cool:

I find it can be even faster then expertflyer with alerts...

Thanks for maintaining the site! :cool:

I find it can be even faster then expertflyer with alerts...
It can be, but not always.

Here is what ExpertFlyer has to say about that:

How often do Flight Alerts check for availability?
We have a proprietary algorithm that we will adjust as we learn more from the requests for Flight Alerts that our subscribers make. Suffice it to say, the polling frequency increases as the departure date and time approaches.

Luiz does something similar:

Flights are Refreshed/Updated in the following manner:

* DepartureDate is in over 21 days : Every 24 hours (once daily)
* DepartureDate is in between 14-21 days : Every 12 hours (twice daily)
* DepartureDate is in between 7-14 days : Every 6 hours
* DepartureDate is in between 4-7 days : Every 3 hours
* DepartureDate is in less than 4 days : Every hour


I'd guess they're both pretty much the same schedule--it's just that Luiz actually tells you what he does.

The problem is on flights far in the future (e.g. more than 21 days out), you're only getting U checked once a day. If ExpertFlyer checks at 11:35am and Luiz checks at 1:15pm, but AS opens up U at 12:20pm, Luiz will appear to catch it 23 hours before ExpertFlyer does. So it's not that Luiz is faster--it's that his timing just happened to work in that particular instance. If AS opens up U at 9am, ExpertFlyer will apear to beat Luiz by almost two hours.

Also, remember Luiz is simply scraping data off of the AS website, and the AS site has a bit of a lag with displaying U space (and breaks occasionally, as he indicated). ExpertFlyer is a dedicated server with direct access to a GDS with real-time availability and is more robust as a result.

Of course, you definitely can't beat Luiz's price... ^