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Old Feb 14, 2015, 12:53 pm
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The purpose of this thread is to post questions, feedback, and report issues with ExpertFlyer. The ExpertFlyer team will respond as soon as possible from the ExpertFlyer Voice account (usually within 24 hours except on weekends).

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











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Old Mar 21, 2017 | 2:35 pm
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Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
As we emailed to you, we are storing the time correctly, but we are just not displaying it correctly. We will push a fix tomorrow for this, however the alert will work correctly.

Also regarding "Their reply indicated that they do not store information, only display the airlines' information." In your first email to us you didn't reference at all that you were referring to an alert. In your second email to us you elaborated that you were referring to an alert, not search results, so then we knew what you were talking about.


FYI, You are actually referencing a new feature we just released yesterday but haven't officially announced yet. We weren't going to do so until we released a patch tomorrow to fix a few issues (this being one of them).

I apologize for not being more thorough in my email--I had assumed that my communicating from within my EF account would provide the context but do understand that would be difficult. I was unaware this is a new feature as I had not needed it until now. Sounds like I stumbled onto it in it's infancy. We will be grateful when you get it to behave as it should. What a good addition!! Thank you.
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Old Mar 24, 2017 | 2:35 pm
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Originally Posted by dia1
I apologize for not being more thorough in my email--I had assumed that my communicating from within my EF account would provide the context but do understand that would be difficult. I was unaware this is a new feature as I had not needed it until now. Sounds like I stumbled onto it in it's infancy. We will be grateful when you get it to behave as it should. What a good addition!! Thank you.
Emailing from your account does help, but with the many different places we show schedule data, more information was required in this case.

We fixed the issues with the alert earlier this week, please let us know if you have any other questions.
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Old Mar 27, 2017 | 9:13 pm
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I haven't been able to log in all day. I use Facebook login, and when I click the button, this pops up. Clicking OK refreshes the page.
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Old Mar 27, 2017 | 9:22 pm
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I haven't been able to log in all day. I use Facebook login, and when I click the button, this pops up. Clicking OK refreshes the page.
I am having the same issue. I have tried Mac and Windows, Chrome and Safari. Seems to be a site issue. Any word on when this will be resolved?
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Old Mar 27, 2017 | 9:46 pm
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Facebook pushed an update after hours today that broke login buttons across many sites. If they don't fix it by tomorrow morning, we will implement our own work around.

In the mean time you can email [email protected] and have us remove FB from your account so you can login with your email and password you set.
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Old Mar 27, 2017 | 9:48 pm
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Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
Facebook pushed an update after hours today that broke login buttons across many sites. If they don't fix it by tomorrow morning, we will implement our own work around.

In the mean time you can email [email protected] and have us remove FB from your account so you can login with your email and password you set.
This problem was present this morning, PDT. So it's been going on for at least 12 hours.
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Old Mar 27, 2017 | 10:04 pm
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Originally Posted by canadiancow
This problem was present this morning, PDT. So it's been going on for at least 12 hours.
We are based in Eastern time, and didn't notice any issues until later in the day. Again, if you want us to remove Facebook from your account just email us to ask.
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Old Mar 28, 2017 | 10:01 am
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While using EF today, I decided to check flight availability and seats on my KLM flights from ORD-CPT via AMS in October. EF shows my reserved seats as available.

I returned first to the DL web (ticket purchased from DL over phone) then to the KLM web and the seat assignments show up the same on both webs. What is in play here?
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Old Mar 28, 2017 | 1:58 pm
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While using EF today, I decided to check flight availability and seats on my KLM flights from ORD-CPT via AMS in October. EF shows my reserved seats as available.

I returned first to the DL web (ticket purchased from DL over phone) then to the KLM web and the seat assignments show up the same on both webs. What is in play here?
Without knowing the date/flight/seat you are referring to we really can't help you. Please email the details to us.

In cases like these it can be that a certain seat was requested, but not yet assigned.
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Old Mar 28, 2017 | 2:45 pm
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Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
Without knowing the date/flight/seat you are referring to we really can't help you. Please email the details to us.

In cases like these it can be that a certain seat was requested, but not yet assigned.
I entered the wrong dates on the outbound so now I can see my assigned seats as occupied using EF. Sorry for the miscue.
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Old Mar 30, 2017 | 4:18 pm
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I admit I wrote to EF CS directly, but posting here may be a faster way to get an answer.

I signed up for premium membership to monitor availability of an EY award. However, I discovered that for a couple of dates that I am NOT interested in, EY shows availability on both segments if I search for for India-AUH-USA, but no availability if I search for AUH-USA only. This is true both on EF directly and on etihad.com.

However, EF only allows setting award alerts for individual flights.

So, assuming that the same behavior may be shown for the date I AM interested in, EF is unable help me watch for an award becoming available, do I understand that correctly? The India-AUH-USA award may possibly open up, but EF can only be set to watch for the individual segments so it won't see it?
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Old Mar 30, 2017 | 9:12 pm
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Originally Posted by SeeBuyFly
..... EY shows availability on both segments if I search for for India-AUH-USA, but no availability if I search for AUH-USA only. This is true both on EF directly and on etihad.com....
EF doesn't support married segment availability neither for awards nor for paid.
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Old Apr 13, 2017 | 2:43 pm
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I see J5 U0 C0 on a flight showing 14 of 28 seats open in Bus. Yesterday it was J6 with the same number of open seats. Why wouldn't EF still show J7? Sorry if this is obvious.
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Old Apr 13, 2017 | 3:18 pm
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Originally Posted by melrowgo
I see J5 U0 C0 on a flight showing 14 of 28 seats open in Bus. Yesterday it was J6 with the same number of open seats. Why wouldn't EF still show J7? Sorry if this is obvious.
If you use "open seats" to mean seats that are unallocated on the seat map, that can have very little to do with availability numbers. Trying to align one with the other is a bit like trying to read tea leaves.
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Old Apr 27, 2017 | 12:25 pm
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I had an alert set on Expertflyer, alert never went off but I happen to see the availability on AA website. Pretty disappointed I never had this issue on United alerts.
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