Travel Tools - How to set a Flight Alert in EF for XN availablity?

Anyone know how to do this in ExpertFlyer? I just signed up for the pro version, still trying to figure it out.

You put in your search criteria under awards and upgrades and check the box "coach - saver awards" (go ahead and check both boxes for X and XN).
Once you do a search for your dates and find some specific flights you then need to go to the far right of the screen and you will see 3 icons. The icon you want is at the top of the 3 and looks like a ! inside a box.
Once you click that you can set you alert.
You can set many alerts for different routes/flights (I forgot how many but something like 18 different flights).
When inventory opens up you will get a e-mail, which is really nice!

I did that, but it only allows me to enter X class, not XN class in the flight alert??

It won't let me enter more than one letter in the "class" box. Any way around this?

I did that, but it only allows me to enter X class, not XN class in the flight alert??

Did you search for both X and XN? When I search for both types, I can create flight alerts for each type. If I only search for 'X', I can only create a flight alert for 'X'.

It won't let me enter more than one letter in the "class" box. Any way around this?

If you mark the 'X' and 'XN' checkboxes in the "Awards & Upgrade" tool and perform a search, you can then click on the "!" to create a flight alert. In the flight alert window, there is a drop-down box where you can pick one of the classes that you searched for. No need to type any class anywhere. Are you using "Awards & Upgrades" or "Flight Availability"?

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I was using their mobile interface, not the desktop one. Thanks for your help, and I'll notify EF, since this needs to be fixed.

I did that, but it only allows me to enter X class, not XN class in the flight alert??

It won't let me enter more than one letter in the "class" box. Any way around this?

Yes, do it from awards/upgrades results screen, not flight availability results screen where you will run into the problem you had. That's what Vunder31 is showing in his/her example also.

Make sure to select XN when you search for award availability first so you can select it from the results page alert button next to the flights you want to create alerts for.

It would be nice if they let us fill in more than one letter on the flight availability page create alert pop-up as well.

-David

Please follow this in the Travel Tools forum.


l'etoile
UA moderator

The issue will be addressed with our next update. Please send all bug reports or questions about how to use ExpertFlyer to customercare@expertflyer.com Thank you.