Seatspy.com : site for monitoring BA reward seat availability
Jul 12, 2020, 3:56 pm
#47
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: South East England
Programs: Status with BA Exec Club; KrisFlyer; Hilton Honors; IHG One; Marriott Bonvoy
Posts: 543
Adding OneWorld results to BA results is going to be really helpful to many people BUT in searches and alerts there needs to be a ‘BA metal only’ toggle or it will drive the voucher users mad giving them phantom availability and false hope.
I’d love to be able to search for OneW availability on routes BA doesn’t fly. Unfortunately the SeatSpy interface doesn’t permit this. given the active development I remain hopeful :-)
I’d love to be able to search for OneW availability on routes BA doesn’t fly. Unfortunately the SeatSpy interface doesn’t permit this. given the active development I remain hopeful :-)
Jul 12, 2020, 5:25 pm
#48
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / Marriott Platinum
Posts: 3,543
I've be monitoring First availability on Mex to lhr for weeks and in the last few hours has completely disappeared all year round both ways. Same appears on the reward flight finder
Jul 12, 2020, 5:44 pm
#49
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Edinburgh
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 547
Jul 13, 2020, 1:55 am
#51
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Programs: BA GGL - maybe only briefly!
Posts: 1,378
Jul 13, 2020, 3:37 am
#52
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Accor Live Limitless Gold, Hilton Honours Gold, Avis Preferred Plus
Posts: 1,806
Jul 13, 2020, 3:53 am
#53
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Angus Scotland
Programs: BAEC Bronze, LH M&M
Posts: 177
I have also noticed this as monitoring LHR to JNB. I had an alert set up until end July 2021 but now the site seems to have gone a bit "haywire". I've stopped getting email alerts for any dates!
Jul 13, 2020, 3:55 am
#54
Join Date: Jan 2020
Posts: 16
reward flight finder is having the same issues. I did email seatspy yesterday who suggested it might be due to the one world beta testing, but clearly not. Just a bug in the data feed.
Jul 13, 2020, 4:20 am
#55
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci Chevalier de Actes Bénéfiques pour les Autres, BAEC Gold.
Posts: 1,485
I am not sure what is going on with Seatspy or Reward Flight Finder to be honest.
Over the past week I have had alerts from both saying there is availability between London and Dallas (and return) in First Class (I want to upgrade from CW to First using Avios).
However, nothing shows on BA.com for my dates or any surrounding dates despite being shown on both Seatspy and reward flight finder.
I then checked American Airlines and nothing is showing available on there either (I can’t think of any other Oneworld carrier that plies between London and Dallas).
Nothing is showing on Expert Flyer’s Reward search either.
So the data is wrong somewhere.
Over the past week I have had alerts from both saying there is availability between London and Dallas (and return) in First Class (I want to upgrade from CW to First using Avios).
However, nothing shows on BA.com for my dates or any surrounding dates despite being shown on both Seatspy and reward flight finder.
I then checked American Airlines and nothing is showing available on there either (I can’t think of any other Oneworld carrier that plies between London and Dallas).
Nothing is showing on Expert Flyer’s Reward search either.
So the data is wrong somewhere.
Jul 13, 2020, 4:51 am
#56
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Accor Live Limitless Gold, Hilton Honours Gold, Avis Preferred Plus
Posts: 1,806
Or maybe it is SeatSpy trying to work out how to deal with a change in the API from BA? The fact that both SeatSpy and Reward Flight Finder have the same/similar issue seems unlikely to be uncorrelated.
Jul 13, 2020, 9:47 am
#57
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Programs: BA GGL - maybe only briefly!
Posts: 1,378
Jul 13, 2020, 10:25 am
#58
Join Date: Aug 2012
Programs: BA silver
Posts: 308
I had been monitoring the site for F class LHR-JNB. All availability on that route for F has disappeared completely. Can't believe BA would stop F on that route, so clearly something is going on/wrong
Jul 13, 2020, 11:38 am
#60
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / Marriott Platinum
Posts: 3,543
I ran the search on the BA website and the First availability showing as normal on the Mex route, so clearly something not communicating well with the API