TK fare classes and United's search engine
I'm looking at award seat availability on a TK flight, using United miles. This is a non-stop flight, from a mid-size European city to Istanbul, next year. Searching for the route on united.com, it returns some award availability on TK (mixed with other *A carriers), but only with a connection. It does not list any non-stop flights.
Searching on ExpertFlyer, that shows the TK flight I'm looking for, and it shows 3 seats in "I" and 2 seats in "X". If I'm reading things correctly, "I" and "X" would be business class and coach award seats, respectively.
Award seats on this flight do not show up when searching united.com. Why? Is that simply because TK is not making them available to United? That flight *does* show up if I try to do a dummy booking for a paid ticket, so it knows about the flight...
I'm new to EF so thanks for being gentle...