Any Alternatives to ExpertFlyer?
 

I'm kinda done with expertflyer now. Very shoddy and not reliable, IMO any longer.
I mainly use it for:
Schedule change alerts (including when the flight #/city pairs change--especially with AA which never/rarely seems to trigger an expertflyer alert)
and
Aircraft change alerts (UA seems to also have problems with expertflyer not triggering)

Very rarely do I use seat alerts.
And can never really use it for award alerts (but supposedly that's not their fault, it's the whole UA/etc. alliance thing)

I see fligthy or something for iOS, but it seems to only (I have NOT tried it) do alerts/etc. like 3 days in advance type of thing. (If it can do 330 days in advance or whenever I book, then I'll check it out).

Is there an alternative to EF for schedule change alerts?
 

The sole EF function that still matters to me is receiving schedule change alerts. Since they removed support for many airlines a while back, I've stopped relying on EF for most award searches and alerts. I used to also rely on it for aircraft change notifications and seat alerts, but I can manage without those

I frequently book award flights months ahead, and there are often schedule adjustments before departure that I need to know about immediately. Does anyone know of an alternative to EF for this specific function?

With all the recent concerns about EF, is there a similar site anybody recommends for seat alerts?

I emailed Flighty about schedule change notifications and they said that it will alert you weeks/months in advance.

I might give it a try...

just an update - I signed up for the weekly version. Flight schedule alerts are pretty cool. I can even see the history of changes when I click on my flight.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...674f1d5b0f.png

Flighty (iOS) it has reliable features for real-time flight updates, including gate changes and cancellations. However, it may not be as robust for alerts well in advance, like 330 days out, so you might still need another tool for long-term monitoring

A reliable tool for seat alerts is what I'd like to find.

try seatalerts.me - you can set up free seat alerts and get notified when they open up. Full disclosure, I just built this for fun because I got fed up with ExpertFlyer. Feel free to message me if you run into any issues or have any feature requests!

This looks great - thank you. If you can add the ability to select any window or any aisle that would be fantastic.

Can you give more information on the type of award alerts you need that's specific to UA?

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...7d89de7aa5.png

My understanding is that you need to be able to Search UA for a certain inventory fare bucket in order to use say, Singapore Krisflyer or Turkish Airlines miles.

See my question here:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...l#post35714126
And the response that the "dynamic" inventory is what can't be searched, which leads to the next post:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/34630136-post2671.html

But I vaguely recall that you can't search Turkish or Singapore for what "they" see in the United system.

Cool tool - very interested. I’m showing many seats as “blocked” when they’re not. AA1492 on 7/15.

We should have our initial seat alerts coming very soon (maybe this week!) - if anyone would like to try out the feature please reach out by PM - our main Beta is now closed, but if you are trying this feature out we will obviously give you some free access.

As part of this we are also revamping our main flight dashboard to support this, other alerting/realtime features, and to provide a much better interface for desktop/laptop use - exciting times!!!

Alternatives refresh
 

Hi,

I finally let my EF subscription lapse, the new Beta adds no function for me (the old beta was much improved). Also the service has too many interruptions/glitches...

I'm looking for an alternative that includes in (descending order of importance):
Seat alerts (including individual seats, not just aisle/window)
Ability to view availability of paid fares by fare bucket
Fares and Fare rules displays
searching for awards (just nice to have)

Any suggestions please?