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Seat Maps: we're currently not able to show seat maps for flights departing within the next 24 hours for several airlines: DL, BA, QR , ANA, B6, & JL
Searches currently not working:
To search AA upgrades:
You can also contact ExpertFlyer support at [email protected]
This is a community-maintained thread it is not supported by ExpertFlyer.
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Seat Maps: we're currently not able to show seat maps for flights departing within the next 24 hours for several airlines: DL, BA, QR , ANA, B6, & JL
Searches currently not working:
- Upgrades - AY, BA, EK, EY, IB, QR, VS
- Awards - AY, BA, IB, EY, QR, VS
To search AA upgrades:
- Use the Award & Upgrade tool
- Only search for individual segments (set the "Connection Preference" drop-down to "Direct/Non-Stop only"). Flight results that are part of a connection won't show the upgrade version of C or A inventory because AA only files upgrade inventory as individual, not married, segments. (Married segments show revenue inventory instead of upgrade inventory.)
- To avoid confusion, check the "Exclude Codeshares" box, as AA awards and upgrades are not valid on codeshares.
- 2 minute video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRNFYIbHp4
ExpertFlyer Help Desk, Information and Updates Thread
#3887
Join Date: May 2024
Location: BRN
Programs: AY+ PLAT, (ex BA Gold), SAS GOLD, M&M FTL / *S, IHG Gold, Marriott Plat, SBB GA First Class
Posts: 1,667
ExpertFlyer Voice
I don't know if there is an issue when you are a free subscriber. I don't find anything which is stated in the pricing for free subscriber. I don't find any information for RTW which schould be available. Here is what I'm seeing.

I see that the subscriber has a menu called Tools but I'm not sure if this is only visible for paid subscription. There should be somewhere a search for seat maps but I don't see it.
This is when I'm logged in on a Computer.
I don't know if there is an issue when you are a free subscriber. I don't find anything which is stated in the pricing for free subscriber. I don't find any information for RTW which schould be available. Here is what I'm seeing.

I see that the subscriber has a menu called Tools but I'm not sure if this is only visible for paid subscription. There should be somewhere a search for seat maps but I don't see it.
This is when I'm logged in on a Computer.
#3888
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist




Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 24,796
ExpertFlyer Voice
I don't know if there is an issue when you are a free subscriber. I don't find anything which is stated in the pricing for free subscriber. I don't find any information for RTW which schould be available. Here is what I'm seeing.
I see that the subscriber has a menu called Tools but I'm not sure if this is only visible for paid subscription. There should be somewhere a search for seat maps but I don't see it.
This is when I'm logged in on a Computer.
I don't know if there is an issue when you are a free subscriber. I don't find anything which is stated in the pricing for free subscriber. I don't find any information for RTW which schould be available. Here is what I'm seeing.
I see that the subscriber has a menu called Tools but I'm not sure if this is only visible for paid subscription. There should be somewhere a search for seat maps but I don't see it.
This is when I'm logged in on a Computer.
#3889
Company Representative - ExpertFlyer


Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,928
Hi Ross0. I had this the other day and now you mention it, the problem is still there today. Its greyed out because youre asking for more than one seat. My workaround was to select the seat alerts individually for each seat until EF fix it (and I dont think theyre aware of it yet) and you should be fine. Let us know if this works for you.
#3890
Join Date: May 2024
Location: BRN
Programs: AY+ PLAT, (ex BA Gold), SAS GOLD, M&M FTL / *S, IHG Gold, Marriott Plat, SBB GA First Class
Posts: 1,667
You need to click on Create New Seat Alert and enter the flight information and desired cabins for the seat map to display.
#3892




Join Date: Sep 2009
Programs: AA Executive Platinum, Marriott Lifetime Titanium, IHG Platinum
Posts: 2,425
#3893
Company Representative - ExpertFlyer


Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,928
BIG UPDATE:
- We have now restored Award and Upgrade inventory for Turkish Airlines (I, X, and J class)
We have also completed a series of previously mentioned fixes that we were working on, some of these are:
- Improvements to our keyboard navigation flow. Within a form, your cursor should now start in the first field.
- Our return date calendars, now recognize the depart date month dynamically.
- Previously, if you were doing manual entry in the "time" field, it only allowed 2H increments. This has now been fixed as well.
- A bug that was not recognizing A&U results view preferences
- We have now restored Award and Upgrade inventory for Turkish Airlines (I, X, and J class)
We have also completed a series of previously mentioned fixes that we were working on, some of these are:
- Improvements to our keyboard navigation flow. Within a form, your cursor should now start in the first field.
- Our return date calendars, now recognize the depart date month dynamically.
- Previously, if you were doing manual entry in the "time" field, it only allowed 2H increments. This has now been fixed as well.
- A bug that was not recognizing A&U results view preferences
#3894
Company Representative - ExpertFlyer


Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,928
#3895


Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,699
Overall, lots of issues and a huge downgrade from pre-upgrade. Yes, the interface was clunky and antiquated, but at least it was fast, and I had most things down to "muscle" memory. Everything is now either not working or slower than it was.
three major problems that is making the site virtually unusable:
1. Spins and spins randomly when doing certain flight availability searches and fails to load results, refreshing doesn't help. Limiting searches to specific airlines, nonstop, 1 day instead of +/- does seem to reduce these errors, but not always. Today, I had the spinning issue again and had to begrudgingly revert to, no joke, google flights and ITA. Which are FREE !
2. Blocked seats showing as occupied. This is a huge deal on airlines that allow certain passengers to request blocked seats either via GDS SSR or by contact center. If you don't know a seat is blocked, you can't ask for it. CX for example, I reported weeks ago, but still not fixed.
3. Stupid things like flight duration of individual segments not showing when you click flight details, i.e. AAA/BBB/CCC where it is a 3,00 flight + 1,00 cnx + 2,00 flight displays as 6,00, when you click on the individual segment. So you have to calculate how long each segment is (like an old school paper timetable). This is not the only bug, but indicative of the poor state of the entire site.
NB. Another pet peeve of mine is showing AM/PM instead of 24 hour clock, without option to change. This is the airline industry you are playing around in...
Over the years, we have gradually lost award availability access across many carriers, and carriers have also increasing adopted policies limiting availability to own members or certain programs, which also reduces the utility of this function in itself. However, quick and simple access to raw availability bucket data is extremely useful to me and has helped me out of a pinch more times than I can count over the past 10+ years and is well worth the $100 a year alone. Access to seat maps would come second, this is absolutely the bread and butter of EF for true FFs so I am shocked and dissapointed that it no longer works reliably - this was EFs niche. Everything else is just a nice to have or a gimmick that other sites also offer.
In my opinion, EF should revert back to the old site, until the interface and data connectivity problems can be resolved. At least it worked for its main purpose for most poeple.
three major problems that is making the site virtually unusable:
1. Spins and spins randomly when doing certain flight availability searches and fails to load results, refreshing doesn't help. Limiting searches to specific airlines, nonstop, 1 day instead of +/- does seem to reduce these errors, but not always. Today, I had the spinning issue again and had to begrudgingly revert to, no joke, google flights and ITA. Which are FREE !
2. Blocked seats showing as occupied. This is a huge deal on airlines that allow certain passengers to request blocked seats either via GDS SSR or by contact center. If you don't know a seat is blocked, you can't ask for it. CX for example, I reported weeks ago, but still not fixed.
3. Stupid things like flight duration of individual segments not showing when you click flight details, i.e. AAA/BBB/CCC where it is a 3,00 flight + 1,00 cnx + 2,00 flight displays as 6,00, when you click on the individual segment. So you have to calculate how long each segment is (like an old school paper timetable). This is not the only bug, but indicative of the poor state of the entire site.
NB. Another pet peeve of mine is showing AM/PM instead of 24 hour clock, without option to change. This is the airline industry you are playing around in...
Over the years, we have gradually lost award availability access across many carriers, and carriers have also increasing adopted policies limiting availability to own members or certain programs, which also reduces the utility of this function in itself. However, quick and simple access to raw availability bucket data is extremely useful to me and has helped me out of a pinch more times than I can count over the past 10+ years and is well worth the $100 a year alone. Access to seat maps would come second, this is absolutely the bread and butter of EF for true FFs so I am shocked and dissapointed that it no longer works reliably - this was EFs niche. Everything else is just a nice to have or a gimmick that other sites also offer.
In my opinion, EF should revert back to the old site, until the interface and data connectivity problems can be resolved. At least it worked for its main purpose for most poeple.
#3896




Join Date: Jan 2019
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 206
I'm not impressed with new version, and with the missing BA (and others) within 24hr seat maps, and blocked seats missing even after putting in status etc Ive decided to cancel for now, and after which they stopped access straight away even though ive paid until end of month, and I chose the not stop straight away option (why that would be a option is anyones guess!!)
#3898




Join Date: Jan 2010
Programs: UA, AS
Posts: 2,596
#3900

Join Date: Apr 2020
Programs: QFF
Posts: 7
Hi ExpertFlyer Voice
I have the following 2 issues:
Issue 1
With QF seat maps, First cabin maps are not loading for flights departing in the next ~24 hours. You get an error:"The requested information could not be retrieved or is not available. This is likely due to invalid input criteria or lack of access to the information from the airline. Please revise the search parameters and try again."
Business, Premium Economy and Economy seat maps are not impacted and display fine.
Example URL to reproduce:
https://www.expertflyer.com/air/seat...=F%2CJ%2CW%2CY

Issue 2
I have my Date Format in my preferences set to dd/mm/yy. Throughout the UI, this mostly works fine - however this particular component in the UI still displays it as mm/dd/yy. Flight Availability, Awards & Upgrades etc screens are impacted. I reported this during the beta testing but didn't hear anything back yet.

I have the following 2 issues:
Issue 1
With QF seat maps, First cabin maps are not loading for flights departing in the next ~24 hours. You get an error:"The requested information could not be retrieved or is not available. This is likely due to invalid input criteria or lack of access to the information from the airline. Please revise the search parameters and try again."
Business, Premium Economy and Economy seat maps are not impacted and display fine.
Example URL to reproduce:
https://www.expertflyer.com/air/seat...=F%2CJ%2CW%2CY

Issue 2
I have my Date Format in my preferences set to dd/mm/yy. Throughout the UI, this mostly works fine - however this particular component in the UI still displays it as mm/dd/yy. Flight Availability, Awards & Upgrades etc screens are impacted. I reported this during the beta testing but didn't hear anything back yet.











