Fare Bucket Availability - seatcounter
 

Not sure if I've been living under a rock, this is to confirm. A search for seatcounter in this forum turned up one obscure reference, so I'm pretty sure I didn't miss a wave of new information.

I used to use the Carlson-Wagonlit fare class availability tool, and any number of other tools to find availability. But, recently those have all dried up. Then, yesterday, a friend at work (a UA fanatic) was using seatcounter.com to check chances of getting bumped off of his Thanksgiving flight.

I'd never heard of the site, and searches here, and in the MR forum didn't turn up much. I figured I would bring it up to either (a) be told it was old news, and to shut up, or (b) to start a discussion on using and interpreting the results.

Waiting to see which it will be...

How about (c) the Continental Airlines forum is the wrong forum for this discussion. This thread will now have a new home in the MilesBuzz! forum.

Xyzzy
CO forum moderator

I lived under a rock once.

I was stoned all the time.


I'm really sorry. I couldn't resist. ;)

I too used to use the Carlson Wagonlit tool, and found Seatcounter only via the "obscure" link to which the OP evidently refers. Subsequent discussion of Seatcounter in that thread seemed to indicate to me that many people already knew about it, but I had not seen reference to it on FT before (or since, except for this thread). I think Seatcounter is great, for what it does. Of course, it doesn't list award inventory except for UA, but then neither does any other free tool I know about.

I set up an availability tool for FlyerTalkers that works just like the old Carlson availability tool. You can find it here:

http://availability.publicbackup.com/

SchmutzigMSP Great "availability tool"....... Thanks!! ^

P.S. Love your handle :cool:

Thanks!! This helped me out today...

Has anyone else noticed Seatcounter.com misbehaving? I could not get it to even pull up my United flights over the next few days. I'd enter a common citypair - MCI-SEA, for example - and it would only show about four flights (oddball routings through PDX, mainly) per day no matter what time of day I selected.

Thankfully, the above link worked fine.

Is this still working? I really like it - but it won't work for me.

It broke yesterday, along with alot of the other ITN-based tools, but it's been back up as of about 12 CDT today.

Seatcounter still seems to be misbehaving. I haven't been able to get it to work correctly for several weeks now. I've exclusively interested in UA.

Works for me now. GREAT tool.

Nice. Thanks.

Does it show award seats?

For what it is worth, the tool provided above does not allow checking availability on AA, and several other carriers. We've put up a new tool patterned on the old Carlson Wagonlit tool we used to provide as a front end to ITN's old database here at http://flyaow.com/classamex.htm

Multi-city version is here: http://flyaow.com/classamexmulti.htm

It works correctly for AA as of right now.

Cheers!