Just curious: did you ask the agent to check for C space using the same query/routing as you fed to EF?

It is a bug on AA's availability; I've encountered it before and it's frustrating/maddening.

There's no way around it -- it will not sell C unless it's available on each segment as standalone. I guess the married segment-driven increases by bucket get applied to availability, giving you the phantom availability, but the same increases do not apply to sales, and you end up with this discrepancy.
The agent will see C4, but when he/she books the married segment, he/she will get an ‡UNABLE 00 AVAILABLE‡ response.

Hi Perche. First, if you have questions about a specific query, you should first email [email protected] Also this is the wrong thread to post help desk questions to as there is already a thread for that: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...sk-thread.html

As for your question C0 is the correct answer. As is stated in the AA section for the Help of the Award & Upgrades results page.

In addition it also states:
Since AA does not operate the LHR-FCO segment, it should be excluded from an AA award/upgrade search.

When searching for what appears to be a valid fare on EF, I received the following error:

I don't see a "Filter Results" option that I can set to Yes; moreover, the fare seems to be valid as it prices out on the airline's own website. Could you explain what this error might mean?

That is referring to the "Validate Fares" option. We changed the name of that check box on the search form a while ago, so you stumbled upon a rare error situation. However since you haven't told us anything about the search you are doing we can replicate it, so we can't offer any explanation why the GDS would return an error that would lead us to show that message.

Please email us the specifics of your search to [email protected] so we can help you, thanks.

How often (or frequently) does EF check for inventory alert and notify the member?

I had set an alert for C inventory on an international AA flight. It did not notify me. However I happened to check it manually on EF and found available C inventory.

As we've noted, the alert system checks each alert several times a day, more so as the date of departure gets closer. It's possible that you can find inventory with a manual check before the next scheduled run of the alert. That's a good thing, and doesn't mean anything isn't working. If you have further questions about your particular alert, please email the details to [email protected]

I happened to find the seat I wanted at the front of economy on a BA flight just after it was released (about 72 hours before departure). EF notified me 75 min later.

For the return, seats were released early, and EF found the seat before I would have looked.

For around 20 flights over the last couple of years, the seat I wanted has always still been free when EF notified me.

Any idea how the fares to Amtrak-UA codeshare stations work, and how to find them using EF? It works to put in ZFV but not ZTF, ZVE, or ZWI.

We have adding the missing station codes to our system. If you find any others, please send us an email and let us know, thanks.

Awesome. A couple quick notes:

- Wilmington is in Delaware, not Pennsylvania.

- At least one of these has a coterminal with the relevant airport, and so those fares should come up as well. The example I'm seeing is ZVE, which permits fares from HVN (this can be verified by doing a search on ITA or a dummy booking on united.com).

I just noticed the other day that EF shows availability to PHL when searching ZFV, so that's already set up for that one. Same thing needs to be done with ZVE, I guess?

Looks like it.

ExpertFlyer does not control if/how fares are filed with co-terminal information, that is up to the airlines and the GDS to return when the request is made.

ITA Matrix gets it right, though. Is there some way it would know but EF wouldn't?