I got this E-mail two days ago and am surprised not to see this update in the thread. It looks like you can't do super close in LH searches, but all in all I'm happy to have these airlines back. ^

We are happy to announce that ExpertFlyer again supports UA Award searching and alerting. Also additional Star Alliance airlines have been added and now all Star Alliance carriers are supported for award searching on ExpertFlyer. The award searches for the newly added airlines will return a Yes/No availability response for each award class for the Quantity requested. "Yes" means at least the requested Quantity of awards are available, "No" means they are not.