That Tool has been discontinued as of Mar 2005. You can find a link to its 'successor' below:

I like this one a lot, too. It's in German, but if you follow the link, Google automatically translates it.

http://translate.google.com/translat...language_tools
Enjoy!

Excellent tip. Thanks!

This AOW AMEX ITN Tool still works. It only shows revenue buckets, no award or upgrade availability. No registration required. There's even a seat map.

And you never know what currency the final price will show up in - SEK, NZD, it's all over the place. The base price is in USD, but the taxes and final price are generally in some other currency.

I only use it to scout out bump possibilities.

You might try this: http://availability.publicbackup.com
Various seat buckets work, but the seat map is a java applet that I can not get to open. Maybe somone can solve this problem for both of us.
Or just give a better site where everything works.

What other airlines than UA does seat counter show award and upgrade availability?

Thanks eo seatcounter I was able to get a 25,000 mile award on a UA flight when you had said there was no availabilty for saver awards between the two cities.

There are 2 fairly comprehensive guides to the various tools. The first is here on flyertalk: http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=312559

The 2nd we host at http://flyaow.com/class.htm

If you have any good tools to add let me know!

Cheers!

As of the last week, ITN is gone?
 

I went back in to check an upcoming flight and it now seems to re-direct to AMEX?
https://www134.americanexpress.com/c...avel/travel.do

Tried to search to see if this had been mentioned, but ITN is too short of a string to search on apparently?

You can find the working link at: http://flyaow.com/class.htm
(Select AMEX ITN Tool)

Visiting www.itn.net directly will not yield the fare buckets unless you register as an advanced user. The AMEX ITN Tool doesn't require registration.

Cheers!

I had *just* come back to this thread to edit to add that I got access via http://publicbackup.com/shared/flyertalk/availability/ - silly bookmarking error on my part. Sorry!

:)

since seatcounter.com appeared to be down today, I tried amex itn availability tool via flyaow, but it kept giving an error message that there was a problem. Am wondering if anyone has had the same problem?

Hello,

Can you please try http://flyaow.com/classamex.htm and let us know if it is working correctly for you now? I think I fixed the problem.

Thank you!

Thank you flyaow. Yes, I have tried it again and this time it worked perfectly. :) Before I thought the problem was me and my machine! Keep up the good work.

Unfortunately the bulk of the free availability checkers out there rely on a very old backend interface from ITN. As those backend interfaces dry up (websites getting updated to newer interfaces) the options become more and more limited.

There are a few non-ITN based tools available too. Details can be found at: http://flyaow.com/class.htm

If you notice the current Amex tool goes does, please PM and let me know and we'll see what we can do to tweak and get a little extra life out of it. (But it will go away eventually I am fully confident unfortunately.)

Cheers!

Thanks, flyaow. Since I have used the availability tool very infrequently (once a year for an overseas trip), I did not want to subscribe to the paid tools as such. I got a free trial with KVS last year for the trip made last year, but it expired.

I will need to use the Amex tool on and off in the next 4 weeks, so I will let you know if it goes down.