The AF/FB award inventory EF shows is for redemptions by FB partner airlines. For FB members the price is variable and not inventory controlled.

Can fare classes overlap? For example, on LH I see "F5 A5". There aren't ten first class seats on the flight, so how do I interpret that? Does that mean all 5 first class seats are available for upgrade (or whatever A means)? Compared to "F2 A0" which means there are only two straight cash fares left?

Learning more day by day, thanks!

Both are cash fare buckets.

F5 A5 = There are 5 seats available and they can be ticketed under either an F or A fare.

F2 A0 = There are 2 seats available and they can only be ticketed under an F fare.

First class aware/upgrade space on LH is O but you will rarely see that these days.

Thanks for all the replies! Another question I have is, how frequently does ExpertFlyer check for space? Since it seems like LH releases award seats at specified times of the day, I'm wondering if it is worth it for me to set alarms for that so I can manually check or would ExpertFlyer alert me as soon as it happens?

Data feeds to EF have been down for over 12 hours now. Is EF dead? Unfortunately I never looked for this thread in the past so didn't see the note from April from an original EFV member but also that the site in general was in a precarious position.

-RM

"An error has occurred while communicating with the airline reservation system. The support team has been notified of this problem. Thank you for your patience and understanding."

Anyone know if this is impacting search results? Not sure if there are just general issues going on with Cerberus/IATA/GDS/whatever, but recently I've been looking for award availability on ANA and EVA 1 year out. I know there's a lot of demand and it's normal to see availability go in and out, but I'm seeing multiple routes over multiple days about 350~ days out all going in and out of availability every 6-12 hours. Seems unlikely to me that all of these flights are getting booked/unbooked at the exact same time for the exact same time periods.

Curious if anyone else has noticed anything going on with award searches? Thanks in advance.

Flight search completely down.
No word from EF except the note on the site. Wondering what is going on???

I don't think anything at all is working with EF. There's also this banner across the top of the site, and I've not been able to get results for any flights all day. "Notice: Please excuse the delays as our data providers are currently experiencing outages. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your understanding."

Same here all day long! :rolleyes:

Is there an estimate on when this outage is likely to be resolved?

Still down
 

Same message this morning. Search has had no results for 24hours now 😔

Driving me nuts. No flight searches for 24 hours.

Seat map search is working at least.

I have had NO response from the EF team . I hope this is not a sign of impending closure of the EF site.... WHat a pity that would be...

I asked the helpdesk and they said they are working to get a fix as quickly as possible (which is kind of vague, as it does not really shed light on what the problem is). When a solution is found, they will adjust the subscription dates so as to compensate people for the days the service is down. No ETA provided ...

I love EF. I hope it doesn't follow the way of KVS.:(