Since this is of interest to frequent fliers on any airline -- to anyone who needs to find flights with availability of any discounted or (public) award booking class -- I think & hope Milesbuzz is an appropriate forum for this post. My sincere apologies if not.

Posts in multiple FT forums have discussed a system at aeroplan.de for viewing Galileo CRS inventory data for most (all?) airlines. Like "expert mode" at Travelocity, this system makes it possible to see discounted premium booking codes (A, C, D, etc.), but it turns out to be somewhat faster than signing into Travelocity and also doesn't require establishing an account there. Finally, it packs an impressive amount of data onto a single screen -- great for experts and aspiring experts alike.

The problem to date has been that the system's interface is only in German. But I figured out earlier today how to translate the initial form in the system into English; results are then pretty universal (day, time, flight number, inventory by booking code).

For the system, see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/...travel/galileo . For a frame-enhanced version (thanks to FT'ers for this suggestion), see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/...leo/frame.html .

Further enhancement suggestions welcomed (here or via email). I'll make every effort to implement the ideas I receive.

The other problem is that it only displays a maximum of ten fare buckets. For example, if you're looking for "T" inventory on UA, the site usually claims there isn't any when, in fact, there is.

Translation into English (or whatever) isn't technically challenging, but there's no way around the site's inherent deficiencies.

you can also use:

http://flyaow.com/classavailability.htm

it is itn based, but you don't have to sign in and switch to expert mode...

dupe

[This message has been edited by Pacha (edited 09-17-2002).]

The Galileo site uses German point of sale avaiability which is usually lower than US point of sale avaiability.