IMH

A late response to one point:

My local supermarket doesn't make much money when I buy a single apple, but they do rather well over the year by having me as a regular and generally happy customer.

747FC

I just found out about your service, and did a little browsing on this thread. I am a former EF member, greatly dissapointed that EF no longer supports UA award searches.

My questions:

1. Do you currently support UA F and C award searches?

2. If I wanted to search for either an F or C, or just an F award between say LHR and HNL for a specific date in August 2015, would I be able to test this out with the Flyertalk membership. For how long would this search stay active?

3. Is HA still unavailable?

Thanks!

ckpeter

Happy 2015 to you too!

That's a good point on the routing. I have been wanting to revamp the email presentation. Changing it from text to HTML, so that more details can be displayed. Let me take a look and see if I can speed up some of the alert email format improvements.

Agreed.

There are already some cases now that are not individually sustainable, but overall helps member with redemption, so I am happy to leave them in. The trade-off is how much active development to devote to features that are purely loss leaders.

ckpeter

Hi! Thanks for your interest.

1) There are a number of Star Alliance airline sites available. I recommend using Star Alliance (ANA) to search, for the best results on finding awards on flights operated by UA.

2) You can do a one-time search for the award using the community membership. A premium membership is required if you want to set up an automated search.

3) HA is not currently available, but I am working on adding additional / unconventional airline data sources for premium members on a by-request basis. Send me an email after you set up an account, and I'll see what I can do.

Let me know if you have more questions.

jerryhung

Thanks, any improvement in email alert, is an improvement

Knowing the routing significantly reduces the time to "action" should a desired route opens up, assuming one already knows about the YQ, or approximate duration, etc...
e.g. If I see AC flights via PVG/NRT/HKG connecting to BR, I know that's a big YQ $ and avoid vs. AC flights via LAX/SFO/JFK connecting to BR, no YQ on that

jerryhung

Thanks Peter, I see you've made changes to the email alert now showing the transfer airports

[AC] YYZ-TPE 2 x Economy
=========================
SU-06-07: AC1175-BR9 [YVR], AC1-BR19
5 [NRT], AC880-BR88 [CDG],
AC1175-AC63-BR159 [YVR|IC
N]

ckpeter

Well, you are certainly quick to notice!

The change was just pushed out and was undergoing testing in the last few days.

lewinr

Hi Peter

Can you please fix the DL search to correctly display the level of the availability based on the new 5-level award chart? Current results are unreliable. (It shows 12.5k awards when the DL site shows much higher levels.)

It would also be great if there was a way to ask AwardNexus to only display (or send an email alert) for levels at "Level X or lower", as now there is availability for almost any flight at the highest level.

(By the way, this thread is "Star Alliance/Oneworld Award Planning with Award Nexus" and DL is outside its scope. But there is no general thread for Award Nexus questions. Maybe you should rename this thread and/or start another one for general question or questions not connected to Star/Oneworld?)

ckpeter

Sorry about that. Due to recent changes, the SkyTeam (DL) airline site is not currently supported at this time. I will keep your suggestion for future enhancement.

Also, one tip for you: because of the recent DL program change, when you use DL miles, the partner flights are only available at the lowest availability level. There is not Level 2+ availability if you are redeeming non-DL partner flights.

I am working on some new award data sources with better reliability and accuracy for SkyTeam partner airlines. Send me an email with your login name and your account email. I will add you to the beta list for early access.

jerryhung

Another feature suggestion

When we search with +0 to +14 days, is it possible to show the real END date that will be searched (inclusive?) so we can be sure?
e.g. I searched starting 7/30+14 days, but then I wasn't sure if the end date is 8/12 or 8/13 (I think it does include 8/13). I then wanted to continue for the next 14 days after


Also as a result of "No flights found", The calendar actually shows NOTHING either to tell me if 8/12 or 8/13 have indeed been searched

See my search for example - 0 Flights found >> the calendar defaults to TODAY instead of showing BOLD dates (searched) with Flight options
I move to July/Aug 2015 and there's no indication I DID search for 7/30~8/13
https://awardnexus.com/collage/view/...ffb723a1934426

ckpeter

As far as adding the end date on the search form goes, it is something that has been considered. The problem is that the page is already very dense, and there isn't much room for additional display.

However, the workaround, and a reply to your question about not showing date range if no flights are found, is that you can check the box on the left and have the calendar display the date range. By default, a segment is not checked (and thus not shown in calendar) if it found no flights. If you just click on the checkbox, you will see that the calendar will highlight your date range, including the end date.

DaveInLA

I'm new to Awardnexus but I've read good things about it. I'm trying to book a business flight from Lyon (LYS) to LAX in March 2016. AN shows availability in LX from LYS-ZRH-LAX on that date, but when I go to United webpage and search for the individual segments, I see availability from LYS-ZRH, but no J seats for ZRH-LAX. Would I just be able to call the United MP line to book these manually? AN does say "2 x NH business award"-- does that mean I can only book it with ANA miles and not United miles? I don't have any ANA miles.

jerryhung

Use Aeroplan.com to search that segment directly and you should know

ANA just recently changed their website, not sure if it's still working/accurate enough. But safe to check all 3 sources when in doubt - UA + ANA + Aeroplan

BostonFlyer1624

Can you fix it so you can search BOS-HKG on CX?

DaveInLA

If it's available on Aeroplan, does that mean I should be able to book on United?