Any way to check for KE award availability online?
 

Whats the equivalent of ANA in ST?

There isn't one.

NWA.com used to show most KE inventory but DL killed that.

Write to ExpertFlyer and tell them you want to see KE's award availability (other than first class, of course)

I once did it, and got a reply saying "We'd love to do so however it is not up to us, KE has to make the inventory available for us to see which they don't.". I don't believe it, because (1) EF shows KE's availability in F. I can't think of a reason KE releases F award availability but not J or Y. (2) NWA.com used to show KE awards, so there should be a way to do that.

If EF could show it why wouldn't they? :confused:

EF has access to a number of GDSes where inventory is published by the airlines but the KE F inventory isn't among what they have access to. Similarly, NW and KE used to privately exchange that data and NW was willing to publish it on their website. EF cannot simply wave a magic wand and cause the results to show up.

sbm12 is correct, just because we request a class code of an airlines host system doesn't mean it will be returned. What commonly happens is that a class code had been programmed to be published to the GDSes at some point in the past because it used to represent something else (like a paid fare class). Now it represents an award class, so it's still there, however other award codes aren't. Not all classes are published by default by airlines, they have to specifically specify each one.