Is there a way to get notified if N (or any other fare class is available)
Apr 24, 2013, 4:44 am
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Is there a way to get notified if N (or any other fare class is available)
Hello club,
Is there a way (thru EF or some other tool) to get notified if N fare is available from a particular departure point? Like N fare is available from SFO to .... on nn/nn/nn date.
Is there a way (thru EF or some other tool) to get notified if N fare is available from a particular departure point? Like N fare is available from SFO to .... on nn/nn/nn date.
Apr 24, 2013, 4:55 am
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Yes. Do a regular search for the cities and date you want. When all the buckets show up hit the alert button and it will let you specify a bucket and number (either a certain number and above or a certain number and below).
Apr 24, 2013, 10:32 am
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I've commented in the Travel Tools forum that EF should really provide daily update capabilities, permitting a daily (or more frequent) email with all of the fares filed between two airports, or availabilities for all of the flights between two points on a given day. They could aggregate them and only do a single query, so it could be fairly cheap. They don't seem very interested, though.
Apr 24, 2013, 12:54 pm
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There are still services that do fare alerts for particular O/D, not a particular fare class but when fares drop, such as http://www.yapta.com/ Unless you need a particular fare class for a particular, it is probably the fare (not the fare class) that matters.
But if you are looking for any N fare out of AAA for anywhere -- such as for a MR, no there are no services for that. How to try to do that is a better subject for the MR forums.
But if you are looking for any N fare out of AAA for anywhere -- such as for a MR, no there are no services for that. How to try to do that is a better subject for the MR forums.
Apr 24, 2013, 1:34 pm
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Why has nobody advised the OP that N fares to SFO from anywhere, barring some trick, is not going to happen very often? Even super-cheap fares go into G. The last N I got to SFO was solely due to the VX match.
Apr 24, 2013, 1:41 pm
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On farecompare there used to be a function to look up the cheapest fares (CPM and overall) on a carrier from a departure city. This doesn't seem to function anymore. Is there a different site to use this?
Apr 24, 2013, 3:01 pm
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Apr 24, 2013, 3:14 pm
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I have an N for next month -- on a non-VX route.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Apr 24, 2013 at 3:21 pm Reason: belatedly saw trekwars2000's post
Apr 24, 2013, 3:34 pm
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