Originally Posted by
venturewithdom
Hey everyone - Dom here, I'm one of the co-founders of Planepoints (we have a dedicated FT thread
here).
Thank you for the kind words. We're working hard to add new airlines and have a public roadmap
here where we're tracking feature requests and prioritisation.
Thanks for the feedback, and you’re right, we don’t currently show D or Z availability for Emirates as that data unfortunately isn’t returned by our GDS. We do show all other fare classes, along with Emirates reward seat availability.
As mentioned above, we have also got a public roadmap and are continuously improving the product based on community feedback, so really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. We want to make sure the product feels genuinely valuable and fairly priced for everyone.
Thank you, I appreciate the feedback and your open sharing of plans and progress. I'll monitor that thread and will probably try a month sometime.
I am not sure where your competitive advantage vs. EF would be. If you already need to charge $7.99 per month for less offering vs $9.99 for EF (and I completely understand that you need to charge), you'll need to pull out some extra features that people are prepared to switch for. But that's your business plan and I'm sure you would have thought about that.
Just one additional remark: If you cannot access D and Z buckets on EK, you can't really claim that you show awards, let alone upgrades. Yes, there are 'Flex Awards' in business class which come from 'O' bucket so technically you may be correct, but upgrades come from D (Business) or Z (First) and that's what most people would be interested in.
But I'll keep on following. Good luck!