X/R classes were hidden by AA back in June: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...-5-2012-a.html

C is the Business upgrade class using miles or E-Vip's (which is visible on ExpertFlyer). R is the upgrade class for 500-mile stickers and EXP status.

Question re ExpertFlyer
 

I was trying to book two business class tickets on Alitalia (Z class). The flight I wanted had Z1 U1 (U being coach award inventory). So I booked one of each with the intent of moving up to Z if/when a space opened up.

But now that availability on that flight is U0 Z0, ExpertFlyer doesn't show the flight at all when I search the route. Is there a way to "force" it to show that flight, so I can set an alert for EF to e-mail me when Z1?

(Mods, wasn't sure where this should go; please move. Thanks.)

Include Y as a fare category in your search.

Doesn't seem to work. I'm looking for for the direct flight MXP-JFK. When I just search for Z, I see MXP-FCO-BOS-JFK.

When I search for Z and U, I see MXP-FCO-JFK.

But I still don't see MXP-JFK, the flight on which I currently have tix...

As NYBanker noted, you have to add a regular fare class, like Y, to the Other Fare Class box in the Award search then the flight should show. Or just do a normal Flight Availability search and create your alert from there.

Ah, I see -- I thought he meant "Y" as shorthand for economy. I manually added fare class Y to the search and was able to add an alert for Z.

Thanks!

NOOG Question
 

Background: I am completely new to ExpertFlyer. I am trying to find availability in First or Biz using my decent pile of AA miles for travel on an example route: CLE-HKG around 21 MAR 12. When using the Awards & Upgrades tab, I put this in and the results come up that are confusing (to me). It shows CLE-LGA on AA4614 a CR7 as 4 Z's available -great! However, the next line down shows JFK-HGK (I'm fine with changing airports) on AA (CX) 6091, but nothing is on that line.


Question is: does this mean there is award space in F for all or only part of the itinerary?

I've read the extensive online help and cannot figure this out, please help.

At the top of the Award search results page it says:

So since AA 6091 is a CX codeshare, there are no award classes for it. If you click on New Help With This Page at the top you'll also see it says for AA, among other things:

Thanks for the quick reply. It should have been obvious that the dialog box opened up on top - it's just that the rest looked more interesting.:p

Inbound aircraft
 

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I wasn't able to find an answer after a few searches.

Is there any way to identify the inbound flight for an upcoming departure? For example, I'm flying LAXYYZ today on AC 796 but would love to check the status of the inbound flight.

Is there a way to do this on expertflyer? Thanks!

Unless the airline publishes the inbound flight information in the Comments of the Flight Status, no there is not.

Thanks for the info!

Hi, I'm having a problem with award alerts not working.

I setup two alterts for flight SU107 (LAX to SVO) for Dec 8th. One for "At least 1 in Business - Award (O)", and a second alert for "At least 1 in Economy - Award (X)".

I never got any alerts. Today I got nervous and used KVS to check and in fact there was availability for both O and X! I called and booked the award ticket.

Now KVS shows the O availability is gone but X is still available (X7 even). But in expertflyer when I click "Quick Check" for the my "At least 1 in Economy - Award (X)" alert it says "Your alert was successfully checked and did not locate availability."

What is going on? Why didn't my alert work?

thanks

ExpertFlyer is showing the Award & Upgrade results correctly:

Results from ExpertFlyer.comYour alerts didn't work because they were for the wrong date. Once we updated the alerts to look at today's date they found the inventory and notified you.

If you have questions about specific alerts in the future, please email us so we can identify you quicker and find your alerts, thanks.

thanks, but can you please explain what was incorrect about the date? I checked it carefully and it certainly appeared to be correct.