I thought you said that the EY availability shown by EF is the same as the availability shown to EY customers?

If EY chooses not to make that inventory available to AA customers, that's nothing to do with EF.

When you sell a service to customers for a fee you should make sure that you make it little clear to customers what they are paying for.

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OK, with great hesitation, may I sneak in an EF related question? :D

I am looking at an itinerary which has 3 connections. What is the best way of checking if a specific fare code is available throughout? (EF Flight Availability form only allows for two connections,)

I can of course break the itinerary into two and check for each. However, I am not sure if those answers will apply when everything is put together.

The Flight Availability search has an "At least 2 connections" option. If 3 connections are required for an itinerary that's what will be returned, but the airline reservation systems won't purposefully return a 3 connection option if there are 2 connection options that are available.

However one thing you can try is specify "At least 2 connections" in the search then keep using the Get more results link at the bottom of the page and 3 connection options may show.

Just switched from KVS to EF so will probably have to ask a few simple things now and then.

Regarding award availability - is there a possibility to search accross an alliance, for example all *A or OW availability between a certain city pair?

New premium subscriber to EF and have a newbie question that I can't find any in this thread or FT-
I'd like to run simple award seat searches to use flying blue mile for transatlantic flights for specific city pairs (and set inventory alerts), but there appears to be some limitations on searching KLM and AF X inventory? It appears X inventory is hidden and will always show up as zero? Or am I just doing something wrong? (apologies if has been covered and I didn't find it-)

Your use of the word "avios" caught my eye, because as far as I know you cannot use Avios (the currency of the frequent flyer schemes of British Airways, Iberia and Meridiana) to fly on Air France of KLM.

A quick random search for AF X class availability one-way CDG-JFK on 13 February 2018 showed plenty.

Thanks for the catch (not enough coffee this morning) and thanks for the reply, I must be doing something wrong- here are the results from a couple of inquiries for IAD to AMS on KL - I don't see any "X" inventory...
http://i63.tinypic.com/2vt1b90.jpg

http://i65.tinypic.com/30sa88y.jpg

However when I am logged in to AF and do an award search I found a classic award, see below. I finally just noticed the disclaimer about KLM searches and results inventory that may be available to Flying Blue members, is that what is happening here? Thanks for the assistance!^^^

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The answer is in the message in your screen shot:

"The KLM Award search shows partner award inventory. Availability to Flying Blue members may be greater."

As KLM is blocking Award Availability on its trans-Atlantic routes for alliance partners for some dates, that will be the result. You'll also note that the Delta award search also shows no award inventory for that flight.

Ok great thanks for helping me muddle through the interface... might be helpful to include the KLM notes along with the other notes you have compiled on other airlines:

https://www.expertflyer.com/popup/he...s.html#notesAF

Be gentle with me...

I am looking at this flight:

Search: Departing PHX on 10/02/17 for SNA
Flying AA flight 1456 in Business/2-Cabin Domestic First, Economy

What the heck am I looking at, I have never seen this many "blocked" seats before? Is this a glitch or something else? Screenshot cuts off but the seats are blocked all the way to the last seat...

Are there any plans to support this any time soon?

Nothing that we can share at this time.