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Aug 17, 2011, 2:08 pm
#526
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The "great fares" you're looking for tend to have limited availability and advance purchase requirements. Sometimes that means 60 days before your travel date, sometimes just 21 or 14 days. The airlines are not in the habit of offering their lowest fares to people who "need" to fly from N. America to Europe today or tomorrow.
If an airline has lots of spare capacity a few days before a flight, you might find "last minute" bargain fares. If they exist, you'll find them using Kayak or the airlines' own sites. ExpertFlyer is great at what it does, but it probably won't help you much with your particular search.
Aug 18, 2011, 7:50 pm
#527
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Jet Airways (9W) Awards
Jet Airways (9W) Award inventory is now available on ExpertFlyer:
First - Award - R
Business - Award - D
Economy - Award - X
First - Award - R
Business - Award - D
Economy - Award - X
Aug 25, 2011, 7:05 pm
#528
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CO & DL Award & Upgrade Information
We're happy to announce that CO Award & Upgrade information is now available on ExpertFlyer using our Award & Upgrade search tool:
First/Business - EasyPass Award (ZN)
First/Business - EasyPass Award for Elites (FN)
First/Business - SaverPass Award and Alliance Upgrades (I)
First/Business - SaverPass Award for Plat Elites (O)
First/Business - Upgrade from B/M Class for Plat Elites (ZE)
First/Business - Upgrade from Y Class (FE)
First/Business - Upgrade using Miles/SWU/Vouchers (R)
Coach - EasyPass Award (HN)
Coach - EasyPass Award for Elites (YN)
Coach - SaverPass Award (X)
Coach - SaverPass Award for Elites (XN)
This means you can now you can use our exclusive Flight Alerts service to be notified about CO award and upgrade inventory changes as well. Please try it out and email us if you find any issues.
In addition, for the past few weeks DL upgrade information had been included in a general Flight Availability search. That is no longer the case, however the V,G,X,Z upgrade classes are still available via the Award & Upgrade search, as they have always been, and only available on ExpertFlyer.
First/Business - EasyPass Award (ZN)
First/Business - EasyPass Award for Elites (FN)
First/Business - SaverPass Award and Alliance Upgrades (I)
First/Business - SaverPass Award for Plat Elites (O)
First/Business - Upgrade from B/M Class for Plat Elites (ZE)
First/Business - Upgrade from Y Class (FE)
First/Business - Upgrade using Miles/SWU/Vouchers (R)
Coach - EasyPass Award (HN)
Coach - EasyPass Award for Elites (YN)
Coach - SaverPass Award (X)
Coach - SaverPass Award for Elites (XN)
This means you can now you can use our exclusive Flight Alerts service to be notified about CO award and upgrade inventory changes as well. Please try it out and email us if you find any issues.
In addition, for the past few weeks DL upgrade information had been included in a general Flight Availability search. That is no longer the case, however the V,G,X,Z upgrade classes are still available via the Award & Upgrade search, as they have always been, and only available on ExpertFlyer.
Aug 25, 2011, 8:15 pm
#529
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^^
Thanks for the update. The CO website is such a pain to use when searching for R availability.
Thanks for the update. The CO website is such a pain to use when searching for R availability.
Aug 25, 2011, 9:29 pm
#530
Join Date: May 2010
Location: NJ
Posts: 1,389
SUCH A WIN! Funny enough I renewed my subscription just to check out some other awards and was a little thrown off seeing CO in the dropdown. This is great.
Aug 26, 2011, 4:12 pm
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:53 pm
#532
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Location: Okinawa
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Sure it is, I've been using it to search CI awards all week.
Sep 1, 2011, 7:01 pm
#533
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We have since added CI to our Award and Upgrade search tool. As we noted back in July:
We have researched this and found that we do have the S class coach award availability for CI, it has now been added to the Award & Upgrade search tool.
At first, we thought we had O class as well, as it was being displayed on the Galileo GDS, however we have confirmed that the inventory it shows for O class isn't real, as it always shows O4. We checked with CI directly about several flights showing O4 and none had availability, therefore if you see O class inventory thru a Galileo based source, it isn't valid.
Thanks for your help spikyone in getting to the bottom of this.
At first, we thought we had O class as well, as it was being displayed on the Galileo GDS, however we have confirmed that the inventory it shows for O class isn't real, as it always shows O4. We checked with CI directly about several flights showing O4 and none had availability, therefore if you see O class inventory thru a Galileo based source, it isn't valid.
Thanks for your help spikyone in getting to the bottom of this.
Sep 1, 2011, 7:05 pm
#534
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Location: Okinawa
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I would hope to see you add Asiana and Thai Airways in the future, I was disappointed to see neither of those are available, but great to see that you guys are actively working to improve your system.
As Hertz #1 Gold is there a coupon or only with the Hertz Business Account Program?
Sep 10, 2011, 7:29 pm
#535
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: SFO
Programs: USAir DiviMiles, Delta SkyMiles
Posts: 102
Need lil help...
All,
I am new to EF and wondering what is the best way to search award availability between BOM and SFO on Skyteam (using DL miles) around a certain time, say Apr 2012...
I am trying all possible segments like BOM-CDG-SFO or BOM-AMS-SFO, etc. but am never getting award availability for 2 BIZ seats.
Is it really not very available or am I doing something wrong? If someone has a few mins to spare and a heart to help - could you try the above searches and see if you are getting anything available?
Thanks, no flames if you do not have time to help out
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I am new to EF and wondering what is the best way to search award availability between BOM and SFO on Skyteam (using DL miles) around a certain time, say Apr 2012...
I am trying all possible segments like BOM-CDG-SFO or BOM-AMS-SFO, etc. but am never getting award availability for 2 BIZ seats.
Is it really not very available or am I doing something wrong? If someone has a few mins to spare and a heart to help - could you try the above searches and see if you are getting anything available?
Thanks, no flames if you do not have time to help out
.
Sep 12, 2011, 11:12 am
#536
Join Date: Apr 2009
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LX Inventory * or M&M?
I have seen inventory that is displayed by EF on LX that are not available to be booked on *A by using CO or UA miles. Someone said EF's inventory display on LX follows availability for M&M members. If this is true, then we need the disclaimer on the inventory display of LX.
Sep 12, 2011, 11:14 am
#537
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I have seen inventory that is displayed by EF on LX that are not available to be booked on *A by using CO or UA miles. Someone said EF's inventory display on LX follows availability for M&M members. If this is true, then we need the disclaimer on the inventory display of LX.
I was excited when I saw a message alerting me to LX F space on NRT-ZRH. Turns out that it was false, as UA and KVS did not see any space.
Sep 12, 2011, 11:35 am
#538
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I have seen inventory that is displayed by EF on LX that are not available to be booked on *A by using CO or UA miles. Someone said EF's inventory display on LX follows availability for M&M members. If this is true, then we need the disclaimer on the inventory display of LX.
"SWISS Award availability reflects availability for Miles & More members. Availability to members of partner airlines may be less."
Sep 12, 2011, 11:37 am
#539
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Perhaps that could be added to the Flight Alerts page?
Sep 12, 2011, 3:48 pm
#540
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Are you referring to the separate Create Flight Alerts page? The messages at the top of the Award & Upgrade results page are airline specific. The Create Flight Alerts page doesn't know you are creating an alert for a LX award class until after you have submitted the form and created the alert and therefore wouldn't be able to show you a message before hand. Much of the award alert creation is done from the Award & Upgrade results page via the (!) icon.