Getting Award Tix Availability Alerts?
I'm relatively new to the miles game, but thanks to considerable business spending, have been accumulating nice quantities of miles and points.
However, using them has been far more of a challenge.
My schedule is very inflexible, all leisure travel must take place Thu-Sun (maybe one more day to make it last a little more) or on long weekends.
Because of the tight schedule and limited time, I greatly prefer direct flights.
So naturally, I can't always get saver level fares and have to redeem at standard levels - which is obviously very poor value.
OTOH, I'm flexible in my destinations.
I was wondering if there is a way to get alerts for saver fares availability to different international destinations for weekend dates.
I can do this in expertflyer, but it would take hundreds of alerts - even for 10 destinations, to set up 20 weekend alerts is 200 alerts. I don't know if it's practical or even possible to do in expertflyer.
Are there any other tools that can be of use?