First, all remaining UA Award and Upgrade classes and alerts have been restored along with numeric availability. If you encounter any issues, please send us an email with the details of your search.

Second, we are happy to announce that ExpertFlyer has just added an additional 20 airlines to our Award & Upgrade search as well as our first alliance award search.

The newly added airlines are:

• Adria Airways (JP)
• ANA (NH)
• Asiana Airlines (OZ)
• Austrian (OS)
• Blue1 (KF)
• Croatia Airlines (OU)
• Egyptair (MS)
• Ethiopian Airlines (ET)
• Island Air (WP)
• LACSA (LR)
• Lufthansa (LH)
• SAS (SK)
• Singapore Airlines (SQ)
• South African Airways (SA)
• TACA (TA)
• TAM Linhas Aereas (JJ)
• TAM Paraguay (PZ)
• TAP-Air Portugal (TP)
• Thai Airways International (TG)
• US Airways (US)

With these additions ExpertFlyer now has 100% Star Alliance Award coverage. In addition, there is an additional entry at the top of the Airline list in the Award & Upgrade search called “Star Alliance”. Choosing this option will show results that can include any Star Alliance airline in the search, our first true alliance level award search.

Award searching for these airlines now also benefit from ExpertFlyer’s unique features:

• Flight Availability Alerts
• +/- 3 day searching for Departure and Return dates
• Include up to 3 fare classes in Award results when searching for a specific airline
• Mobile web Award & Upgrade searching

Please let us know if you have any questions and if you run into any issues please email the details of your search to [email protected] to help us troubleshoot. We hope you enjoy the new additions and thank you for your support of ExpertFlyer.