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#1006
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: MAN,TLV
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Posts: 1,965
Understood. Many Thanks ^
#1007
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: London
Posts: 17,007
Although the airline will know how many passengers are at any one point holding reservations on the flight, even the airline doesn't really know if the flight is going to be "overbooked". Missed connections, last minute changes, no shows and high value customers force booking a seat on a full flight all conspire to keep the true load of the flight potentially unknown until the boarding is complete.
#1008
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: California
Programs: AA EXP, lowly UA 1K; Hyatt Diamond, SPG Gold, Hilton Gold; National EC, Hertz PC
Posts: 2,212
Is there any history of Expert Flyer going on sale - say for like Black Friday? Would feel silly if I signed up now only to have it be discounted next week. Flying AA a lot more and annoyed they don't have as much info as UA on their website to figure out how full flights are and what stand by options are out there.
#1009
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Berlin
Programs: BA Gold; Accor Plat; IHG Diamond-Amb; Meliá & HH & Marriott Gold
Posts: 5,447
#1010
Left Expert Flyer 4/23
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,741
UA/Star Airline Awards
We are happy to announce that ExpertFlyer again supports UA Award searching and alerting. Also additional Star Alliance airlines have been added and now all Star carriers are supported for award searching. The award searches for the new airlines will return a Yes/No availability answer to the Quantity requested in the search.
Notes:
As always, the full list of supported Award & Upgrade airlines/classes for searching and alerting is available here: http://www.expertflyer.com/sessionlessClassList.do
If you encounter any issues or have questions about specific searches, please email us directly at [email protected] with the details about the search and results.
-EFV
Notes:
- For UA, only the O,I,X award classes are supported for searching and alerting. No other award or upgrade classes are available.
- At this time there is no Star Alliance award search, each airline would be selected individually.
As always, the full list of supported Award & Upgrade airlines/classes for searching and alerting is available here: http://www.expertflyer.com/sessionlessClassList.do
If you encounter any issues or have questions about specific searches, please email us directly at [email protected] with the details about the search and results.
-EFV
#1012
Left Expert Flyer 4/23
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,741
The alerts haven't changed and work the same as they always have, for all supported airlines.
#1013
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Hawai'i Nei
Programs: Au: UA, Marriott, Hilton; GE
Posts: 7,125
No, that's not what we're saying at all. It means that if you want to know if there are 2 of an award class available, you set 2 as the Quantity in the search and you'll see a Yes or No next to a flight in the response, as opposed to a specific class value.
The alerts haven't changed and work the same as they always have, for all supported airlines.
The alerts haven't changed and work the same as they always have, for all supported airlines.
Thank you for your clarification.
#1014
Left Expert Flyer 4/23
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,741
Correct, that's how Flight Alerts have always worked.
#1016
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: 6km East of EPAYE
Programs: UA Silver, AA Platinum, AS & DL GM Marriott TE, Hilton Gold
Posts: 9,582
Star Alliance is Back!
I got this E-mail two days ago and am surprised not to see this update in the thread. It looks like you can't do super close in LH searches, but all in all I'm happy to have these airlines back. ^
We are happy to announce that ExpertFlyer again supports UA Award searching and alerting. Also additional Star Alliance airlines have been added and now all Star Alliance carriers are supported for award searching on ExpertFlyer. The award searches for the newly added airlines will return a Yes/No availability response for each award class for the Quantity requested. "Yes" means at least the requested Quantity of awards are available, "No" means they are not.
We are happy to announce that ExpertFlyer again supports UA Award searching and alerting. Also additional Star Alliance airlines have been added and now all Star Alliance carriers are supported for award searching on ExpertFlyer. The award searches for the newly added airlines will return a Yes/No availability response for each award class for the Quantity requested. "Yes" means at least the requested Quantity of awards are available, "No" means they are not.
#1017
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Hawai'i Nei
Programs: Au: UA, Marriott, Hilton; GE
Posts: 7,125
We are happy to announce that ExpertFlyer again supports UA Award searching and alerting. Also additional Star Alliance airlines have been added and now all Star carriers are supported for award searching. The award searches for the new airlines will return a Yes/No availability answer to the Quantity requested in the search.
Notes:
As always, the full list of supported Award & Upgrade airlines/classes for searching and alerting is available here: http://www.expertflyer.com/sessionlessClassList.do
If you encounter any issues or have questions about specific searches, please email us directly at [email protected] with the details about the search and results.
-EFV
Notes:
- For UA, only the O,I,X award classes are supported for searching and alerting. No other award or upgrade classes are available.
- At this time there is no Star Alliance award search, each airline would be selected individually.
As always, the full list of supported Award & Upgrade airlines/classes for searching and alerting is available here: http://www.expertflyer.com/sessionlessClassList.do
If you encounter any issues or have questions about specific searches, please email us directly at [email protected] with the details about the search and results.
-EFV
I got this E-mail two days ago and am surprised not to see this update in the thread. It looks like you can't do super close in LH searches, but all in all I'm happy to have these airlines back. ^
We are happy to announce that ExpertFlyer again supports UA Award searching and alerting. Also additional Star Alliance airlines have been added and now all Star Alliance carriers are supported for award searching on ExpertFlyer. The award searches for the newly added airlines will return a Yes/No availability response for each award class for the Quantity requested. "Yes" means at least the requested Quantity of awards are available, "No" means they are not.
We are happy to announce that ExpertFlyer again supports UA Award searching and alerting. Also additional Star Alliance airlines have been added and now all Star Alliance carriers are supported for award searching on ExpertFlyer. The award searches for the newly added airlines will return a Yes/No availability response for each award class for the Quantity requested. "Yes" means at least the requested Quantity of awards are available, "No" means they are not.
#1018
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: 6km East of EPAYE
Programs: UA Silver, AA Platinum, AS & DL GM Marriott TE, Hilton Gold
Posts: 9,582
#1019
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: LAX
Programs: NW 1MM, BD Gold, BA Gold, AA 1MM, LM, VX eleVAte, Hyatt D6, SPG Plat, Hertz President's
Posts: 304
What is the reasoning behind the Yes or No response as opposed to the specific class value (which I prefer)? Does this apply to all airlines now, or just the new ones (noticed BA is also the same)?