Fares - yes; Availability - no.

Sorry, don't understand your response. Shouldn't one expect to be able to fly A-B-A at the same price as B-A-B, subject to availability of course. And MileageBrain, like Farecompare, is just saying that the airline has published a given fare, not that it can be booked, right?

No, unlike FC, MB actually shows fully-priced trips.

Interesting. As a mileage runner, what would be the utility of knowing fares without knowing availability?

Quick update - If you find a great mileage run somewhere else and it doesn't appear in MileageBrain's results, it may be that we don't know to check that route for MRs! You'll now see the option to "suggest a route" at the top of your search results. These suggestions will be automatically incorporated by the algorithm within 24 hours.

Please use it to help improve the search results for yourself and everyone else!

I love the concept, bengl3rt! I was just doing some dummy searches, and found one thing that could make it better: since I have status on AA, I earn minimum mileage on flights under 500 miles in length. I found one "MR" (I put it in quotes because this time of year there really aren't any good MRs) that would actually have come in about 3 cents per mile cheaper when the 500 mile minimum is calculated in, since it had a bunch of short flights glued together (something like SEA-PDX-LAS-LAX-SFO-PDX-SEA). I would suggest adding a tick box for 500-mile minimum. Ideally one could select his or her airline and status and the tool would know what that person could expect for minimums and EQM earn rate, but just having a "500 mile minimum" tick box would help for now!

Nice program but here is my question. I search, find an itinerary, click details, then finally click "book this itinerary." Problem is that the itinerary listed doesn't price out the same (and if I read above correctly, your software actually shows available flights and not just fares - right?)

but clicking through gets me a cheapest fare of $515 a.i and for the route specified, $563 a.i

Am I doing something wrong or am I not understanding what MB can do?

Thanks for the efforts

Cheers

bengl3rt, is there any update on when Mileagebrain will be back up?

It seems to have been down for the past few days (we have a thread over at MP discussing it http://milepoint.com/forums/threads/...working.11274/).

Still down? Any news on when it will return?

Anybody hear anything? Did the site get abandoned?

I dunno. Doesn't come back with anything from any airport on any airline....

Was really looking forward to using this in Q4.....

Someone might have gotten wise to their screen scraping and blocked them as it seems that everything works but the data.

Dead
 

Yes, looks like its still dead.

The blog hasnt been updated in MONTHS !

It needed to be totally rewritten - details on the blog, but the site is back now. :)

Awesome! Where are you sourcing your data?