Originally Posted by
JIMCHI
I subscribe to Expert Flyer and it does not monitor award availability. It does have a feature which will alert you if a specific seat on a specific flight opens up (e.g. seat 3A on flight 123 on January 5th).
You've been missing out on a nice feature of EF that has been there for some time now. It is there for any airline and class (paid, award, upgrade) that can be searched. For an award or upgrade on AA, for example, use the Award & Upgrade tool to do the search you want. When you get the results page look over to the rightmost column. There you will see a square box with a "!" in it. This is the Create Flight Alert icon. Click on it and you will get a pop up to create an alert for that flight. The Class Code for that particular class you searched of will auto-fill, just fill in a name for the alert.
BTW, EF now supports upward & upgrade classes for US flights. ^