Travel Tools - [Awardtravelr] Search for *A/ST/OW awards online for free UPDATE: OW not working

Awardfinder (http://awardfinder.juny4ng.com) passed 90,000 searches this week and what better way to celebrate the milestone by launching a new and improved version (as promised ;))

Awardtravelr is currently in beta and can be accessed from http://www.awardtravelr.com. Do provide your feedback! Do note that the site works best in Chrome/Firefox!

Features


*A Search (ANA, United, Aeroplan)
Skyteam Search (AF)
Oneworld Search (BA)
Advanced filtering
Improved performance! We now have multiple servers crunching the searches
Improved UI


Upcoming Features


More providers! Delta for ST and AA for OW.
Saved Searches
Scheduled searches
Mobile version
More providers for OW and ST searches.


I hope you guys find this useful. I've learnt alot from FT and it's a wonderful feeling being able to contribute back to the community. Do post your comments/improvements on the thread or feel free to use the Feedback link on the site!

Announcements


Oneworld search is currently disabled since BA is currently down.

Oneworld search is now up.

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Select "Oneworld" on the main page or on the search page.

Color coded availability is up. Also, we squashed several bugs relating to availability were squashed today. Results should be as accurate as they should be!

http://www.juny4ng.com/LXFirst.PNG

Pushed out a bunch of performance updates today as well as UI improvements. Results are shown in real-time as they are sent in. Also, a 6 day search on *A (which searches ANA/UA/Aeroplan) completes in less than 45 seconds!

This tool is awesome! I have been attempting to find a coach ticket for a friend from the US to Europe. It takes 3 segments. I've had no success on united.com; in fact, have been checking it near daily for over a month. I ran the search yesterday using Awardtravelr, and found roughly 8 alternatives for the 3 desired days of travel. I just called United Rez. Their system did not find the routing that came up on awardtravelr. However when I fed the agent the individual flights, every flight was available. My friend will be very happy.

Question: When I click "sort" and "duration", nothing happens (irrespective of which I click first). What should I be doing?

Thanks for the feedback! Glad that the tool helped. "sort" is actually not a button - but now that you mentioned it, it does look kinda like a button and it's actually clickable (even though it should not be).

To sort the results, just click on the particular dimension you want to sort it by, be it Takeoff, landing, duration or stops. Takeoff is basically the takeoff time, landing is the landing time, duration is the length of the itinerary and stops is the number of stops it makes.

This shows sorted by take-off time from earliest to latest.

http://www.juny4ng.com/sort-takeoff.PNG

Click on "take-off" again and it now shows take-off time from latest to earliest. Same goes for other buttons.

http://www.juny4ng.com/sort-takeoff2.PNG

This tool is awesome! I have been attempting to find a coach ticket for a friend from the US to Europe. It takes 3 segments. I've had no success on united.com; in fact, have been checking it near daily for over a month. I ran the search yesterday using Awardtravelr, and found roughly 8 alternatives for the 3 desired days of travel. I just called United Rez. Their system did not find the routing that came up on awardtravelr. However when I fed the agent the individual flights, every flight was available. My friend will be very happy.

Question: When I click "sort" and "duration", nothing happens (irrespective of which I click first). What should I be doing?

I like it. Thank you.

We released some UI changes today based on comments received. Make sure you press refresh a couple of times!

We now show each flight's class availability on the flight number itself without the need to expand the "show details" panel below. Enjoy.

http://www.juny4ng.com/update-1.PNG

Hi,

Thanks for the hard work! It's a wonderful tool that has helped me book plenty of flights.

Quick question: Why is it that in the new version we cannot search beyond 7 days forward? Is it possible to increase the search range?

We're looking to increase it in the near future. The stress on the server is pretty high for large searches, so we're currently still load testing. What do you think is a good number for days forward?

Hi,

Thanks for the hard work! It's a wonderful tool that has helped me book plenty of flights.

Quick question: Why is it that in the new version we cannot search beyond 7 days forward? Is it possible to increase the search range?

We're looking to increase it in the near future. The stress on the server is pretty high for large searches, so we're currently still load testing. What do you think is a good number for days forward?

Understandably. Hmm well I normally like to run searches up to a month because my travel dates are quite flexible so doing that actually allows me to gauge availability at one shot without having to search multiple dates!

That's one of the reason why I use and prefer award finder over award nexus and flisea.com actually - because those two only allow a limited search date (nexus obviously is only free until a certain point)...

Great tool, and the price is right. :)

One little nitpicky thing: you should change "Don't Matter" to "Doesn't Matter" in the "No. of Layovers" drop-down menu. Would be a little more professional. ;)

Ran tool on several browsers. This is not a criticism just personal observations as applications function differently on the various browsers and this appears to be in the initial development stage.

Google Chrome 18.0.1025.151: Application seems to be optimal in this browser. All options appear to be correctly presented and function as expected. Very quick loading of information. "Passenger Number" has scroll wheel and "Multiples Days" scroll wheel has + and - as an option on the "Search" page. "From"and "To" show complete airport information when entering 3 letter codes. Sorting is very fast,almost instantaneous.

MS IE9: "From" and "To" do not show full airport information when airport codes are entered. "Multiple Days" can only set to days ahead . Processing is very slow. On initial activation of "Search",the next screen does not appear to be actually searching. Reloading then activates the "Search".
For the "Sort" options there is not a graphical indication that anything is actually happening. Processing of the various options is extremely slow, in fact at times locks up the browser.

FireFox 11.0: Again, "From" and "To" do not show full airport information when airport codes are entered. "Multiple Days" can only set to only days ahead.
On"Search" the processing bar is shown and processing is very fast. If I attempted to compare to Chrome it would be subjective so I will not.
On presentation of the "Search" results,the multiple pages information is over written in the flight information line(Flight, Date, From-To,Duration). I waited 5 minutes but none of the "Sort" options appeared to function in this browser.

I think this is a great tool. The graphical user interface is excellent being clear in function and easy to use especially when used in the Chrome browser. As it now the functionality and layout is better and more professional than I have seen in several business oriented sites.

Laptop Information; OS Win7 Home Premium, iCore7, 8GB ram,1GB dedicated graphical memory, Internet at 15MPS.

Thanks for your effort,

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I'm searching for 2 F seats on BA, PHX-LHR on 9/9/12.

This tool shows available 2 seats in F; 2 seats in J.

I was excited, as BA.com shows no availability.

So I checked Award Nexus -- no availability.

So I called BA -- no availability.

First day that BA shows availability is 9/13, which is what I can see on ba.com and was confirmed by the agent.

I'm searching for 2 F seats on BA, PHX-LHR on 9/9/12.

This tool shows available 2 seats in F; 2 seats in J.

I was excited, as BA.com shows no availability.

So I checked Award Nexus -- no availability.

So I called BA -- no availability.

First day that BA shows availability is 9/13, which is what I can see on ba.com and was confirmed by the agent.

I will look into this. We're getting our information from BA - so this is weird. Rest assured that accuracy is our highest priority.

Thanks for your feedback and taking the effort to test on various browsers. We're aware of some of these issues and are working to resolve them asap. The aim is to make it cross-compatible across all 3 main browsers (Chrome, FF2, FF3, IE8, 9, 10 beta) as well as have a mobile version.

Ran tool on several browsers. This is not a criticism just personal observations as applications function differently on the various browsers and this appears to be in the initial development stage.

Google Chrome 18.0.1025.151: Application seems to be optimal in this browser. All options appear to be correctly presented and function as expected. Very quick loading of information. "Passenger Number" has scroll wheel and "Multiples Days" scroll wheel has + and - as an option on the "Search" page. "From"and "To" show complete airport information when entering 3 letter codes. Sorting is very fast,almost instantaneous.

MS IE9: "From" and "To" do not show full airport information when airport codes are entered. "Multiple Days" can only set to days ahead . Processing is very slow. On initial activation of "Search",the next screen does not appear to be actually searching. Reloading then activates the "Search".
For the "Sort" options there is not a graphical indication that anything is actually happening. Processing of the various options is extremely slow, in fact at times locks up the browser.

FireFox 11.0: Again, "From" and "To" do not show full airport information when airport codes are entered. "Multiple Days" can only set to only days ahead.
On"Search" the processing bar is shown and processing is very fast. If I attempted to compare to Chrome it would be subjective so I will not.
On presentation of the "Search" results,the multiple pages information is over written in the flight information line(Flight, Date, From-To,Duration). I waited 5 minutes but none of the "Sort" options appeared to function in this browser.

I think this is a great tool. The graphical user interface is excellent being clear in function and easy to use especially when used in the Chrome browser. As it now the functionality and layout is better and more professional than I have seen in several business oriented sites.

Laptop Information; OS Win7 Home Premium, iCore7, 8GB ram,1GB dedicated graphical memory, Internet at 15MPS.

Thanks for your effort,

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If I search SYD-SIN on Oneworld I get the following result:

Depart Mon, Apr 16 SYD to SIN (2-Stops) 17h 5m
FCY
Qantas Airways QF401 Business, First
Qantas Airways QF485 Business, First
Qantas Airways QF71 Business, First
One World
Take-off Mon, 16 Apr 6:00am SYD
Sydney Intl (Sydney, Australia)
Landing Mon, 16 Apr 9:05pm SIN
Changi Intl (Singapore, Singapore)

2-Stops (MEL, PER)

None of the 3 QF flights in this itinerary offer a First Class cabin.
I don't know that the BA search engine is a good site to use for your purpose as I think it returns that a First Class award can be used even if there are no segments in F solely because you can pay for a First Class Award but fly in a lower class if you choose

Searching on the QF site shows only the domestic segments are available in business:

Your Flights


Mon 16 Apr 12 06:00 Sydney 07:35 Melbourne Qantas flight QF401
Business

Mon 16 Apr 12 08:35 Melbourne 10:40 Perth Qantas flight QF485
Business

15:35 Perth 21:05 Singapore Qantas flight QF71
Economy

Your flight from Perth to Singapore will be in Economy


Searching BA shows the same as QF:


Outbound - Monday 16 April 2012
06:00
16 Apr
07:35
16 Apr
Sydney Kingsford Smith Melbourne QF0401
Qantas Airways Ltd
Business
08:35
16 Apr
10:40
16 Apr
Melbourne Perth QF0485
Qantas Airways Ltd
Business
15:35
16 Apr
21:05
16 Apr
Perth Changi (Singapore) QF0071
Qantas Airways Ltd
Economy

Thanks! As what I've mentioned to a previous poster - we're currently tracking down problems with the OW search. Once this has been resolved, we'll post an update.

If I search SYD-SIN on Oneworld I get the following result:



None of the 3 QF flights in this itinerary offer a First Class cabin.
I don't know that the BA search engine is a good site to use for your purpose as I think it returns that a First Class award can be used even if there are no segments in F solely because you can pay for a First Class Award but fly in a lower class if you choose

Searching on the QF site shows only the domestic segments are available in business:




Searching BA shows the same as QF:

Oneworld search has been updated. We resolved the problems with the inconsistent results due to a bug in how we obtain the data. What's reflected on our site now will be consistent with what BA is showing.

For example: A search for LHR to PHX on 9-23-2012 for 2 pax on Awardtravelr would show 3 flights:

BA289 in Y
BA193 -> AA1955 in Y and then F
BA193 -> AA1875 in Y and then F

If you do a search on BA's site for the flights, you would see these results:

BA289 in World Traveller (Y) on LHR to PHX
BA193 -> AA1955 in Y and then F (via Partner Search for the same flight and
specifying F)
BA193 -> AA1875 in Y and then F (via Partner Search for the same flight and specifying F)

Searching for the flight in C yields no results except for BA289 in Y. Our site aims to automate this process for you which is useful for larger searches such as SIN-LHR which may yield many flights especially when you are looking at partner flights too:

An example:

http://www.juny4ng.com/ba-1.PNG

Thanks guys, for using Awardtravelr and providing valuable feedback. As with these tools, accurate information is of utmost importance and we're always striving towards that.

Update pushed to all servers. Our OW results are fully consistent now with what BA is showing. Thanks guys

Page should be compatible with Firefox now. We just pushed out a couple of UI fixes, including the auto complete as well as paging problem. Sorting is also be working well in firefox. Note to self (for technical guys as well): Firefox dosen't resolve event to window.event by default! Only IE and Chrome!

Make sure you refresh a couple of times to get the latest UI.

Updated the list of airports for the autocomplete. (e.g. PPT)

Thank you for a very quick fix to some minor browser issues.

Just tried searching for Award travel on Star Alliance - looks like you have the same problem that United does - phantom seats showing available.

Specifically looking at LH-417 F showing available on IAD-FRA 5/26/12. United engine shows that same space but if you check ANA or call United those seats don't actually exist.

Great tool otherwise,
Thanks

Just tried searching for Award travel on Star Alliance - looks like you have the same problem that United does - phantom seats showing available.

Specifically looking at LH-417 F showing available on IAD-FRA 5/26/12. United engine shows that same space but if you check ANA or call United those seats don't actually exist.

Great tool otherwise,
Thanks

We'll allow (in the near future) for users to toggle or filter between specific sites they want to search on, so that might help.

Oneworld search has been updated. We resolved the problems with the inconsistent results due to a bug in how we obtain the data. What's reflected on our site now will be consistent with what BA is showing.


Oneworld search is indeed working well - so now I can say Awesome tool
Thanks guys

We just rolled out a whole bunch of UI changes that fixes many problems with IE - so we're pretty much cross-compatible with all 3 main browsers now!

This is REALLY GREAT! Thank you VERY MUCH!

Overall looks like a nice tool! Would be very useful to also have co-terminals like NYC for all New York City area airports, CHI for Chicago, Bay Area, etc.

100k searches! 100,000th search was from SEA-GIG :)

Heads up that United.com is showing false positives for LH F availability. A search on Awardtravelr showed LH F for two separate flights. United agent agreed that their website showed the flights but they were not available. This issue has been discussed quite a bit in the United forum. Unfortunately, when it comes to LH availability, it's important to check ANA.

Heads up that United.com is showing false positives for LH F availability. A search on Awardtravelr showed LH F for two separate flights. United agent agreed that their website showed the flights but they were not available. This issue has been discussed quite a bit in the United forum. Unfortunately, when it comes to LH availability, it's important to check ANA.

Yep, we're aware of the problem. We're allowing users the flights by which search engine (ANA/UA/AC) very soon. :)

great little tool, but I noticed a bug with the dates...
It shows 2012 Days of the Week (aka Saturday) for the 2013 values...
for example

Fri, Mar 2 JFK to LAX (Non-Stop) is being shown as a Friday when March 2, 2013 is actually a Saturday.

Other than that, great little tool!!

Bug has been fixed. Also, we've pushed out several more improvements to the UI. Hope u guys like it!

great little tool, but I noticed a bug with the dates...
It shows 2012 Days of the Week (aka Saturday) for the 2013 values...
for example

Fri, Mar 2 JFK to LAX (Non-Stop) is being shown as a Friday when March 2, 2013 is actually a Saturday.

Other than that, great little tool!!

I'm enjoying your tool.

I just tried a SAN-NYC search. It wouldn't accept NYC, so I put in JFK. But it returned EWR. What are the changes of getting it to accept the generic city codes when indeed any of the airports would suit?

We're working on it. Right now we have a list of airports that we're going to add into the system soon - so stay tuned!

I'm enjoying your tool.

I just tried a SAN-NYC search. It wouldn't accept NYC, so I put in JFK. But it returned EWR. What are the changes of getting it to accept the generic city codes when indeed any of the airports would suit?

Great tool!

First, praise:
-OW and *A functions are great!
-UI is perfect
-Runs smoothly, quickly
-Fast, easy to use

Downside:
-With very few exceptions, basically has zero functionality for ST. There are so many partner flights but only two or three of them show up (regardless of what else is available). I understand it's because those other partners don't show themselves on the AF site (or on DL either), but nonetheless - it's still slightly frustrating.

Other than that one negative point, I'd say this is among the greatest inventions since the Sham-Wow :) Seriously though, I love it - the website, not Sham-Wow :)

Holy crap this is awesome. The +7 feature is really helpful and found awesome F tix CX nonstop to HKG. Too bad I can't go next week. When you search for 2 people, does it only looks for flights with 2 awards available?

Holy crap this is awesome. The +7 feature is really helpful and found awesome F tix CX nonstop to HKG. Too bad I can't go next week. When you search for 2 people, does it only looks for flights with 2 awards available?

Yes it does currently.

Thanks for your comments. We're working to expand our ST and OW offerings as well as offer searches for several other more niche airlines :)

Great tool!

First, praise:
-OW and *A functions are great!
-UI is perfect
-Runs smoothly, quickly
-Fast, easy to use

Downside:
-With very few exceptions, basically has zero functionality for ST. There are so many partner flights but only two or three of them show up (regardless of what else is available). I understand it's because those other partners don't show themselves on the AF site (or on DL either), but nonetheless - it's still slightly frustrating.

Other than that one negative point, I'd say this is among the greatest inventions since the Sham-Wow :) Seriously though, I love it - the website, not Sham-Wow :)

I will look into this. We're getting our information from BA - so this is weird. Rest assured that accuracy is our highest priority.

You've subsequently reported that these BA issues are resolved. However, I just searched your tool for the following:

4x - PHX-LHR - 2/3/13 +7 (also tried +0)

Your search (multiple times) returns: "Your search returned no results"

BA.com shows:

4x F seats available on 2/3, 4, 5, 8, 9
and
4x J seats available on 2/3, 4, 5, 8, 9
and
4x Y seats available on 2/3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9

We're looking into it and will get back to you guys once we determine the fault. Thanks for your feedback!

You've subsequently reported that these BA issues are resolved. However, I just searched your tool for the following:

4x - PHX-LHR - 2/3/13 +7 (also tried +0)

Your search (multiple times) returns: "Your search returned no results"

BA.com shows:

4x F seats available on 2/3, 4, 5, 8, 9
and
4x J seats available on 2/3, 4, 5, 8, 9
and
4x Y seats available on 2/3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9

The problem has been resolved. Our apologies for any inconvenience :) It was due to an error on how we process dates. The changes should be propagated out to our servers within the next 10-15 mins.

http://www.juny4ng.com/ba2.PNG

You've subsequently reported that these BA issues are resolved. However, I just searched your tool for the following:

4x - PHX-LHR - 2/3/13 +7 (also tried +0)

Your search (multiple times) returns: "Your search returned no results"

BA.com shows:

4x F seats available on 2/3, 4, 5, 8, 9
and
4x J seats available on 2/3, 4, 5, 8, 9
and
4x Y seats available on 2/3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9

The problem has been resolved. Our apologies for any inconvenience :)

Thank you - your quick response and commitment to making this an accurate and reliable tool is impressive. ^

Try as I might, I can't get it to work.

I use IE7 at work, and well, I can search but I get no results at all.

I tried from home using IE8 and the search works, but I get no results either. I checked online for dates I knew had availability to the destination.

Sounds awesome if I could only get it to work :(

Try as I might, I can't get it to work. (

Without knowing what steps were taken and what the screen presented,it is difficult to know what "I can't get it to work" means and what might be the problem.

I did notice with IE9 sometimes a message is displayed at the bottom of the page indicating that:
"Internet Explorer blocked this website from displaying content with security certificate errors"
Clicking "Show Content" sometimes presents the retrieved information.
At other times after inputting the search criteria a search bar is again presented with the 6 fields blank.
Sometimes clicking the browser "refresh" option initiates the search and sometimes it doesn't.
Maybe this is the problem that "Mary2e" is experiencing...

FireFox-11 and Google Chrome-18 function correctly.

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Try as I might, I can't get it to work.

I use IE7 at work, and well, I can search but I get no results at all.

I tried from home using IE8 and the search works, but I get no results either. I checked online for dates I knew had availability to the destination.

Sounds awesome if I could only get it to work :(

What are u searching for? We could look into this. We're actively supporting IE too, especially IE8 and 9, so those should work fine on our site.

Without knowing what steps were taken and what the screen presented,it is difficult to know what "I can't get it to work" means and what might be the problem.

I did notice with IE9 sometimes a message is displayed at the bottom of the page indicating that:
"Internet Explorer blocked this website from displaying content with security certificate errors"
Clicking "Show Content" sometimes presents the retrieved information.
At other times after inputting the search criteria a search bar is again presented with the 6 fields blank.
Sometimes clicking the browser "refresh" option initiates the search and sometimes it doesn't.
Maybe this is the problem that "Mary2e" is experiencing...

FireFox-11 and Google Chrome-18 function correctly.

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It's really a constant struggle with IE - for one, we test actively with IE ourselves, but that's limited to IE 7-9. Our stats show that we don't get a ton of IE users as well (mostly FF and Chrome) so we don't get much feedback from IE users. Providing us abit more details so we can replicate the problem would be great! Ultimately, the tool is for everyone, so we _want_ to support all major browsers. We push out changes pretty fast (usually within a day) so if there was any compatibility problems, it would usually be gone the next.

I was trying for EWR-CDG initially, and then decided to try something easy that I knew was available - EWR-MCO on UA

The dates I checked were 6/21-25 for 1 seat. Nothing popped up for any class of service, and the website had several flights available.

I just wanted to be a bit more clear with my IE7 issue - I'm using it at work and I can enter the search requirements and press search - but nothing comes up at all - not even the filters on the left hand side. It just continues to say it's searching.

On my home machine using IE8, search works - I get the filter box on the left, but it does not return any flights.

Could any of the results be construed as ads? My company actively blocks anything that remotely looks like an ad, and at home, I've altered my hosts file to block most of them.

My guess is that your corporate network might be blocking certain ports which we require to be open for the search to work. To provide real-time search results as well as for the app to be more responsive, we use a technology called WebSockets to communicate with your browser. In our experience, we've seen some firewalls block that but most are fine with it. It's a pretty prevalent technology nowadays so it really shouldn't be blocked.

We're currently working on a fall-back version which will work in the event that there is a firewall. I'm using IE9 now and EWR-MCO does show results on a *A search. I suspect it might be a one-off issue or we might have been upgrading our servers at that time. Let us know if it still dosen't work today!

I was trying for EWR-CDG initially, and then decided to try something easy that I knew was available - EWR-MCO on UA

The dates I checked were 6/21-25 for 1 seat. Nothing popped up for any class of service, and the website had several flights available.

I just wanted to be a bit more clear with my IE7 issue - I'm using it at work and I can enter the search requirements and press search - but nothing comes up at all - not even the filters on the left hand side. It just continues to say it's searching.

On my home machine using IE8, search works - I get the filter box on the left, but it does not return any flights.

Could any of the results be construed as ads? My company actively blocks anything that remotely looks like an ad, and at home, I've altered my hosts file to block most of them.

Thank you. It is very likely my company is blocking WebSockets. I will try again from home.

Today we're releasing a couple of new features!


Integration with Seatguru. Simply click on the "Check Seatguru" button for each flight to head right to the seat plan :) This is still a work in progress and we're trying to improve the accuracy!
Filtering by total Itinerary Duration
Brand new paging mechanism!


http://www.juny4ng.com/at/seatguru/seatguru.PNG

We also have a whole lot of upcoming features!


Additional providers ;)
Filter by provider
Integration with another travel tool to provide you more infromation! (Soon to be announced!)


Enjoy!

I tried again at home using IE8. The search completed - I received the filter boxes on the left, however, I didn't get any available flights for Star Alliance.

I searched 6/21 for 4 days EWR-MCO. I double checked an there is availability - F outbound and Y return. Would zone alarm effect this?

I guess I may need to install a different browser.

It showed 39 flights on IE9, Google Chrome and Firefox 11
Google Chrome appears to be the fastest.
Here is the search link:
http://beta.awardtravelr.com/search#EWR/to/MCO/with/staralliance/on/06-21-2012/fwd/5/pax/1

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Has to be IE8. I seem to be the only person who can't get any results :)

Will download new browser. Thank you for checking.

Has to be IE8. I seem to be the only person who can't get any results :)

Will download new browser. Thank you for checking.

I too have the same problem with ie8.

I just downloaded firefox and it works perfectly!!!

Thank you. Great tool!

I just downloaded firefox and it works perfectly!!!


Once I took the Firefox plunge, I never looked back at IE. You may find, as I did, that it's just superior all around to IE.

Glad this is working for you now; I think this tool has tremendous potential.

Yes, it could come in very handy, to say the least.

I have to play around with firefox a bit. I had trouble finding my imported bookmarks, but it does seem more clear and faster ^^

Mary2e - Glad that FF worked for you!

AZ Travels The World - Thanks for your kind worlds

OnTheAisle - Thanks for testing out the various browsers.

Looks like IE8 support is still flaky for some people - we'll expand our testing and get that more stable. We still want to support at least IE8 and IE9..

Integration with Seatguru. Simply click on the "Check Seatguru" button for each flight to head right to the seat plan :) This is still a work in progress and we're trying to improve the accuracy!


Just saw this feature today - super convenient and extremely helpful!

Great work, keep it up! Your tool has already come a long way since I first tried it three months ago.

good tool. Thanks
Is there a way to tell whether the award is saver award or regular award in your search result?

I was looking to book a RTW trip. The tool worked great finding segments all the way east through to Seoul, ICN. But it shows no availability out of Seoul? Checking the same route to several destinations, HNL, MSP, etc. shows availability for awards on Delta site, but nothing on Awardtravelr. These are for around 1/31/13.

thanks for sharing~ really fancy

I was looking to book a RTW trip. The tool worked great finding segments all the way east through to Seoul, ICN. But it shows no availability out of Seoul? Checking the same route to several destinations, HNL, MSP, etc. shows availability for awards on Delta site, but nothing on Awardtravelr. These are for around 1/31/13.

Hey, thanks for your feedback. Sadly, we're not searching Delta currently.. but AF for Skyteam. Delta will be incorporated soon.

Is the search function down? I have tried to do some searches and it just sits there after I put in the parameters.

I've been having the same problem all day today - tried firefox and IE.

We're currently experiencing higher than normal searches - will get this looked at asap. Thanks!

Service is back to normal. Thanks!

This site sounds like a great tool, but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one having problems. I cant get it to do anything at all really. It just sits on the Search in Progress... screen. I've left if for half an hour and it does nothing. I tried Chrome 19, IE 9, FF 10 (yes I know that's out of date) on two different ISPs - one of which I'm the firewall admin for so I know nothing's being blocked.

I started searching YVR-AKL on OW, then I tried YVR-HKG, YVR-LHR, LHR-JFK, LHR-SEA, etc etc On *A too. Tried dates ranging from next month to next year. The site just does nothing. Search in Progress... is all I ever get.

I can see the search queries updating on the home page so apparently it works for others, but I have no idea what's going on for me.

Okay, just got it to work on my iPhone. Not sure what difference that makes.

Looks good!

This tool hasn't been working for the last couple days...

Looking to book travel 12/31 or 1/1 TLV - BOS for 4 seats. Tool shows 4 seats on LX 257 connecting on LX52. USAir states no seats on LX52.

Any idea why there is a discrepancy? As an aside the ANA tool shows the same availability on LX.

Looking to book travel 12/31 or 1/1 TLV - BOS for 4 seats. Tool shows 4 seats on LX 257 connecting on LX52. USAir states no seats on LX52.

Any idea why there is a discrepancy? As an aside the ANA tool shows the same availability on LX.

US may be doing StarNet blocking - which is a known problem. Keep trying - you'll find the route you want soon!

Today, we're letting flyer-talkers try out our new tool - http://routegen.awardtravelr.com.

The tool is still in alpha development, but you get the rough idea. We basically want to generate routes based on airline timetable so award searchers can get a good idea of what's out there and what to search for. In the future, this will be integrated into AwardTravelr.

Try it out and let me know your thoughts! Keep in mind that the UI is just temporary and a new and better UI will launch in due time. Thanks! There are a few issues we're aware of:

- You may see some repeat routes due to the schedule we load - for the entire year. There are flights with the same number, but in actual fact, they are different flights for summer/winter seasons.
- The schedule is not the most up to date. This is based off an early 2010 schedule.

We're looking to get the schedule updated, include the OW/ST alliances in future releases.

Is there still a problem with phantom flights? I searched for PVG-TPE on Oct. 3 and Awardtravelr shows 8 flights whereas ANA tool just shows one that is unavailable for redemption.

Is it possible to tell whether flights are Saver/Standard awards?

Is it possible to tell whether flights are Saver/Standard awards?

All of the third-party tools only show 'saver' awards, including this one.

The page does not load for me?

http://www.awardtravelr.com

The page does not load for me?

http://www.awardtravelr.com

Just worked for me. An alternative link is http://beta.awardtravelr.com/

All of the third-party tools only show 'saver' awards, including this one.

My search pulled up a flight from LAX to LIH (Kauai, HI) on Dec. 16 (UA785) with Economy shown as available, but it only shows up on United.com as available for Standard Economy or Saver/Standard Business/FC, while I'm only interested in Saver Economy.

Just found your tool. It seems very helpful. I found some Star Alliance awards that I did not know about. Thanks.
As expected Delta awards , Sky Team did not come up for me . I expect that's a Delta problem , not yours.
I will continue to use this.

Thank You.

is the search down? I always get stuck on the 'Please wait while results are loading' page?

is the search down? I always get stuck on the 'Please wait while results are loading' page?

Has been down for 2 days for me :mad:

We had an outage last week - should be up and running since. Do let us know if you face any more problems.

Is this tool incapable of searching for awards originating from North America to Asia? At least any and all combinations I tried on SkyTeam originating from major cities like NYC, LAX, and DTW going to Japan and China destinations all route THROUGH Europe.

Awards don't work that way; you can't book a "connection" in Europe going to Asia without paying essentially double the award amount.

Am I missing something here? None of the Delta flights even show up.
I tried something as simple as DTW-PEK or JFK-NRT but they all seem to want to route DTW-CVG-PEK or some ridiculous combinations like that.

Interesting - could you PM me a particular date this is happening?

Is this tool incapable of searching for awards originating from North America to Asia? At least any and all combinations I tried on SkyTeam originating from major cities like NYC, LAX, and DTW going to Japan and China destinations all route THROUGH Europe.

Awards don't work that way; you can't book a "connection" in Europe going to Asia without paying essentially double the award amount.

Am I missing something here? None of the Delta flights even show up.
I tried something as simple as DTW-PEK or JFK-NRT but they all seem to want to route DTW-CVG-PEK or some ridiculous combinations like that.

Was looking for coach award to get me from HKG to WAS with a fair amount of restrictions on my part. Was not able to find any suitable award flights using united.com or aa.com or their respective CSRs. beta.awardtravelr.com showed that there were no OneWorld awards on the date that I wanted for a variety of routings. However, the site did show availability via Star Alliance. Another call to the United CSR and I was able to walk them through the routing and indeed coach Saver award seats were available for a desirable time, on the desired date, to the desired destination, with a reasonable routing and great timing.

I love this tool and am very appreciative of you making it available. Today, it was hiccuping when attempting to search for JAL flights within Japan. I checked Kumamoto to Haneda, a route where I know JL offers service. For each search, I got a message that British Airways nor any of its partners offer service.

Pretty much all queries I have tried.

Here's are some examples:
JFK-PVG on 10/3/2012 will try to connect at CDG on AF,
DTW-PEK on 10/4/2012 will try to connect at CDG on AF, and
LAX-PVG on 10/5/2012 will try to connect at CDG on AF.

Interesting - could you PM me a particular date this is happening?

Is this tool incapable of searching for awards originating from North America to Asia? At least any and all combinations I tried on SkyTeam originating from major cities like NYC, LAX, and DTW going to Japan and China destinations all route THROUGH Europe.

Awards don't work that way; you can't book a "connection" in Europe going to Asia without paying essentially double the award amount.

Am I missing something here? None of the Delta flights even show up.
I tried something as simple as DTW-PEK or JFK-NRT but they all seem to want to route DTW-CVG-PEK or some ridiculous combinations like that.

I love this tool

Me too but it isn't working for me at all today. Lots of BA/LA availability won't show for some reason.

Been trying to do some search but the page just stays in the "search in progress" mode forever. Does anyone else have this issue? Is the site down?

Thanks.

Been trying to do some search but the page just stays in the "search in progress" mode forever. Does anyone else have this issue? Is the site down?

Thanks.

Yes I'm having the same problem.

what a great tool..thanks

what a great tool..thanks

Yes it is but just a word of warning.

It has been confirmed that the Oneworld BA search has not been working for several days now.

For the last two days Awardtravelr hasn't been working. Is it just me?

I have tried a different browser and using a VPN.

Even tried searing a different alliance.

It's stuck on the Search in Progress...

For the last two days Awardtravelr hasn't been working. Is it just me?

I have tried a different browser and using a VPN.

Even tried searing a different alliance.

It's stuck on the Search in Progress...

I am experiencing the same thing. Hopefully it will be up-and-running shortly as it is an awesome tool.

I am having the same issue, hopefully it gets resolved soon.

Same issue for the last few days - is there any 'official' word from them?

Same issue for the last few days - is there any 'official' word from them?

Only what was posted on the website 7 days ago.

We are having some problems with our search right now. Please be patient with us while we resolve the problems.

Buming me out. Need this soooo bad right now.

awardnexus.com is a great alternative for those willing to pay a modest fee.

count me in the bummed camp... it's not a perfect way to construct your award, but for *A individual flights in particular it's a great way to prospect awards with the +7 day feature and figure out what kind of availability you might be looking at when ready to book

So I am guessing that the app is permanently disabled. It has been a long time since the site has been down.

The message posted on the home page said it would be up and running in the next hour. That was 16 hours ago and it's still down so the problem must have been more serious than they thought.

As it's free we really can't complain.

As it's free we really can't complain.

I agree wholeheartedly with you.

one world searches return no results.

It is ok to donate a little $ to them.

When I use their site and get an award ticket I send a little love their way.

one world searches return no results.

Still not working for me.

I wonder if the guys who run it are finding it difficult to give it as much attention as they used to? The lack of feedback from them would seem to indicate that might be the case.
I hope not as it's a very useful search tool.

Star Alliance searches seem to be working fine now but still not finding Oneworld flights.

Any word on if or when OW availability will return?

Any word on if or when OW availability will return?

Doesn't look very good does it?

Now BA have modernised their redemption search tool the need for Awardtravelr isn't as great for me as it used to be. Still miss it though.

OW still a no-go.

No more option to search J fares?

when I search SFO > LGA 25/12 for 4 seats it comes up with UA671 as a non stop flight (as does Lifemiles) however UA's website, Google, kayak etc claim it stops in DEN.

Which should I believe?

As it's free we really can't complain.

I've now changed my stance on this.

Months later and still no public feedback from the owners regarding the Oneworld search problems.
Considering they ask for donations which some people might give only to find the tool doesn't do what it promises is a bit below the belt. :td:

Until they sort the problems out the site should be closed....or at the very least users should be made aware that the tool doesn't fully function.

I have updated the title to show that the OneWorld search is not working.

Carol
Community Director

Interesting tool. There is a new tool called flisea.com as well, that can search *A awards. Maybe the owner of this tool felt it wasn;t worth continuing to maintain this without more remuneration. It seels flisea will use a freemium model.