I'm relatively new to the miles game, but thanks to considerable business spending, have been accumulating nice quantities of miles and points.
However, using them has been far more of a challenge.
My schedule is very inflexible, all leisure travel must take place Thu-Sun (maybe one more day to make it last a little more) or on long weekends.
Because of the tight schedule and limited time, I greatly prefer direct flights.
So naturally, I can't always get saver level fares and have to redeem at standard levels - which is obviously very poor value.
OTOH, I'm flexible in my destinations.
I was wondering if there is a way to get alerts for saver fares availability to different international destinations for weekend dates.
I can do this in expertflyer, but it would take hundreds of alerts - even for 10 destinations, to set up 20 weekend alerts is 200 alerts. I don't know if it's practical or even possible to do in expertflyer.
Are there any other tools that can be of use?
However, using them has been far more of a challenge.
My schedule is very inflexible, all leisure travel must take place Thu-Sun (maybe one more day to make it last a little more) or on long weekends.
Because of the tight schedule and limited time, I greatly prefer direct flights.
So naturally, I can't always get saver level fares and have to redeem at standard levels - which is obviously very poor value.
OTOH, I'm flexible in my destinations.
I was wondering if there is a way to get alerts for saver fares availability to different international destinations for weekend dates.
I can do this in expertflyer, but it would take hundreds of alerts - even for 10 destinations, to set up 20 weekend alerts is 200 alerts. I don't know if it's practical or even possible to do in expertflyer.
Are there any other tools that can be of use?
Welcome to FT!
A quick note generally if you are starting a thread that is asking a question, it's best to signify that you're asking a question by using a question mark. Otherwise, it seems like a statement, as if you're sharing something you've found.
On to your actual question though, I don't know of any alerts like that, but there is a page of what American Airlines calls hot spots that lists destinations having the greatest amount of saver tickets available. I'm also pretty flexible as to destination, so sometimes I check that out. I wish other airlines had a similar page.
http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/hotSpots/main.jsp
Have fun!
A quick note generally if you are starting a thread that is asking a question, it's best to signify that you're asking a question by using a question mark. Otherwise, it seems like a statement, as if you're sharing something you've found.
On to your actual question though, I don't know of any alerts like that, but there is a page of what American Airlines calls hot spots that lists destinations having the greatest amount of saver tickets available. I'm also pretty flexible as to destination, so sometimes I check that out. I wish other airlines had a similar page.
http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/hotSpots/main.jsp
Have fun!
Thanks -that page is actually very helpful. I checked out a few destinations and found more availability than I'm used to seeing on AA.
I looked on UA and found this page
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/con...averaward.aspx
seems very similar to AA, with even greater flexibility because it allows you to set departure city and looks farther ahead.
Didn't find anything similar on Delta though...not surprised.
I looked on UA and found this page
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/con...averaward.aspx
seems very similar to AA, with even greater flexibility because it allows you to set departure city and looks farther ahead.
Didn't find anything similar on Delta though...not surprised.
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