Originally Posted by
gtu2004
Thanks for the response. And your last part on "more often then(sic) not" is exactly what I'm trying to get at. How would we know for sure? In case of "then not", if you call in to redeem Delta miles on say, Korean Air or Tahiti Air, and with Delta agents being often lazy on top of being downright incompetent, they may say that a specific "Korean Air flight is not bookable using Delta miles", but we will have no way to know if it is true. We can HUACA but then that will increase the effort to redeem and sort of reduce the usefulness of the tool.
So my question is still: Can Expertflyer/KMV Tool/any other tools see availability that a partner (i.e. AirFrance) releases to frequent flyers of other partners (i.e. using Delta miles) and not only their own (AirFrance) frequent flyers?
Experience. Your question assumes the partner inventory is always different, which it is usually not. If you know who the exceptions are (such as Flying Blue, Miles & More) which actually make more inventory available to their own flyers then you're ok. Since it appears you fly Skyteam, then you know now that ExpertFlyer shows partner level inventory for AF, which is what you need to look at. If there are caveats for certain airlines, they are labeled at the top of the Award & Upgrade results page.