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If you ever decide to get the Premium membership, I have found it useful in looking at flight loads. I have a HKG-LAX flight 1 in F and 1 in J. It's been F5 A5 on EF for awhile now and I have an alert set up for when F or A drops <5. Granted, EF won't alert you of an award seat opening, but it's still nice being in the know.
I signed up for the free trial and set an alert, as described above, and it worked like a charm within 24 hours when the seat count dropped and sure enough an award seat opened up this morning
Seems like EF is a no brainer if you really want to be in the game, like jamienbaker said.
Thanks all.