I do not understand how to find TK on EF. If I enter IAD-IST it does not show any TK flights yet there are two daily non-stops.

They updated the site to reflect the problem:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...b708a4272a.jpg

I'm just scraping the AA seat map loophole now a few times a day from my server to give me my own notifications, but it's obviously not legal per TOS nor is it something as efficient as EF was. I did snag 8D and 8E for me and my dad using my own scraping notifier tho, lol:

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d147226b2b.jpg

Are you able to differentiate between blocked and taken seats this way?

Unfortunately, no. I wish! One reason I stopped using my own scraper and just paid for EF was because of this. Seeing blocked seats is super helpful for planning for me.

Comparing the website code for 8D in January 2025 (probably blocked):

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...1c15eeb7b6.jpg

to the code for 9C same flight in January 2025 (probably NOT blocked, but selected):

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...fe80735708.jpg

I don't see any option that would unmask a blocked seat from a selected seat. Nonetheless, I've used it myself to snag a better seat when someone else upgrades, cancels, etc, so it's useful, but it's not as valuable as what EF should be doing.

FWIW I am not a computer programmer or coder, I just whipped this up years ago before I knew EF existed, and it still works today because AA isn't a company that changes anything on their website, haha.

Darn, that's what I'm currently checking too, I hoped you had a better solution :). I'm currently often booking last minute intl trips, unfortunately in Y, and the blocked vs taken is super helpful to know if I have the possibility of snagging a good MCE seat. Plus with BA I can sometimes reserve seats that are blocked, but that's a whole other animal that I need EF for.

I finally received an acknowledgment of my first message to the support desk:

Same message to me, verbatim. My specific complaint was that I couldn't see Emirates seats, FWIW.

I just discovered that AY award search functionality had gone the way of BA’s and IB’s which for me justified the cost of the subscription . I was relying on alerts i had set up that were obviously not being monitored so am doubly aggrieved: paying for something i was not getting AND failing to monitor the availability myself and possibly losing out. I wrote to them asking for a refund and got a message about them working on a fix for the seatmaps. Pathetic.

I also asked for a refund and same reply.

Generic.

It is great that EF has finally acknowledged the problem. Sadly, I have seen multiple instances in the past where they acknowledged a problem and claimed to be working on a fix that either took an inordinate amount of time to fix or the fix never materialized and the functionality was permanently lost. I won't be placing any big bets on them fixing this anytime soon.

Same here.... A named individual but a proforma reply nonetheless.

Same here. And it looks like my submission created two tickets so I got two copies of the reply simultaneously.

I sent an email and a request via contact form. No replies.

I have been thinking along the same lines. I've done some superficial research into what it would take to get a single seat access license to something like Amadeus (or Sabre or Travelport). From a technical perspective it doesn't look too difficult. But I have no idea how the licensing agreements for this kind of access work. Are people effectively prohibited from using their GDS access to publish the data in a way like EF does? And is full and legal access prohibitively expensive?

Thank you for all you've done. :tu: :cool: