Does Expertflyer display the reason for the cancellation of a flight? If so where can I find it? I am particularly interested in this flight:

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The difference isn't that you added the Fare Basis code to the search, the real difference is that you also added the airline code to the search. Try the search again specifying AD but not the Fare Basis and you'll see you now see all the AD fares. There must be some quirk that AD fares only get returned from the reservation system when it is specified, which we haven't seen with other airlines.

You are looking at it. The "Comments" area of the Flight Status search is where that extended information would be, however it's not supported by all airlines. DY apparently being one that doesn't support that data.

Deciphering Flight Status Comments
 

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. I couldn't find anything definitive:

Is there an online resource that can help decipher the codes and abbreviations used in the "View Additional Comments" that describe the specific situation and causes for delays cancellations, etc.?

Here's an example (not looking to decode this specific situation, just looking for a place where I can look up the various codes):

☨DTE CHNG FLT☨ ORIG 7JAN
MCO 925P B 90
YOW ☨ MAGATE 1218A
5MCO/UPLINE DLY MED UNCONTROLLABLE IN MBJ *1332*JEUGF4
3MCO/ETD 2310 WS *2151*HDQHTN
4MCO/OUT 2316 OFF 2339 *2239*HDQHTN
2YOW/ON 0212 IN 0217 *0120*HDQHT

The Help for the Flight Status response page has some of the common abbreviations: https://www.expertflyer.com/popup/he...s-results.html

I have a seat alert setup for AA 193 for today (Jan 17) that doesn't seem to be working.

We are not currently seeing any issues. The GDS was having problems with AA seat maps earlier today which may have been the cause. In the future if you email us directly you'll get a response from us faster and can look up your account. Here we can't advise you on your alerts when we don't know who you are.

Thank you!!

EF virgin question here. Read the guides but want to see whether I understand this right...

Have a couple of flights coming up with the whole of the front plane currently marked as blocked. A few of the blocked seats have been booked. Would like to set up alerts for multiple seats in multiple rows for each flight.

Because I would like to receive notifications after the first seat alert, I assume I should set up an alert for each seat. So one alert for 23B, one for 24B, one for 23D etc. I think there would be about 12 seat alerts if done separately.

Therefore, I'd be looking at subscribing to premium for one month to get sufficient seat alerts (would canx after trip, and would re-subscribe for next trip later in year), otherwise it would be 4 seat alerts for 1-month Basic. Do I have this right?

I think that you can seat one seat alert for all 12 seats (assuming that Basic works in the same way as Premium on this). You will get an alert if any one of them comes free. That alert is then done, and ceases to count as a live alert. What you can then do is to go back and set a further alert for the remaining seats in which you're interested. Depending on exactly what you're trying to do, you might end up having to set fewer than 12 alerts in total over your pre-flight period, and it seems unlikely that you'd need more than four live alerts at any one time so you'd stay within the Basic account limit.

Moreover (but again, depending on exactly what you're trying to do), you may then only need to have one seat alert live at any one time, in which case I wonder whether even the Free option might work for you.

But if you do want 12 simultaneous live alerts, then a month of Premium does sound like the better option.

Thanks Globaliser. Ding ding! Your post rang a bell! It's likely/possible the currently blocked seats will unblock around the same time (T-whatever) so certainly on the outbound I can just set up to four live alerts, as with the Basic plan. My thinking behind so many alerts at once is possibly not being available to set new alerts after the single notification, and for the return flight. Thanks! :D

Not sure this is EF directly, but,

Looking at MEX-ORD. I see that EF mentions the fare saying travel must be nonstop. Simple. So why would the fare information say one transfer is permitted in each direction though, if travel must also be nonstop? Shouldn't the fare say no transfer permitted in either direction?

Moderator's Note
 

Fare rules are best discussed in the respective airlines forums. The fare type or fare basis code is needed in order to provide you with an accurate answer.

TWA884
Travel Tools moderator

Since this post I've experimented quite a bit and stand by my report that EF doesn't play nicely with ad blockers. So unless users are prepared to jump through "are you a real person?" hoops they have to put up with this sort of thing:

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Not classy, IMO. Are those ads really so lucrative that it's worth inflicting them on paying customers?

Yes it does, we know it does, we've tested it ourselves. Standard ad blockers like Ad blockPlus do not result in Captchas while using EF. Also you should look at the exact list of URLs being blocked by whatever ad blocker you are using.

It's very likely that you have another add-on that is blocking our cookies, which will result in Captchas. Again, since you need further help in using the correct ad blocker and not blocking non-ad parts of EF, please email us directly with the details of the add-on you are using.

As for the content of the ads, we do not control that other then the direction we have given the ad network for them to be travel related. Please send any screen shots of errant ads directly to [email protected] so we can forward to our ad network provider.