The basic rule of thumb
for award search tools is that oneworld award space (American Airlines and US Airways) is best searched on the British Airways website, and Delta on the Air France site.
Not exact matches
Although United does a good job displaying
award space
for most carriers, it removed Singapore Airlines from its
search tool last year.
Again using United's one - way
award search tool as a guide, I began
searching not
for flights from Auckland to Los Angeles, but rather
for flights from Auckland to Honolulu, then
for flights from Honolulu to Los Angeles, knowing that Honolulu would be a viable stopover target on the return journey.
You can even
search for award availability on both of these carriers in one place by using the American Airlines
award search tool.
After confirming Saver class availability
for each flight segment by
searching them as one - way flights, I now stitched them all together in United's multi-destination
award search tool, making certain to choose the specific flight numbers I'd confirmed availability on during my one - way
searches.
I
searched flights from Jacksonville to London using American's
award booking
tool, and sure enough,
award bookings
for 40,000 AAdvantage Miles came back traveling through Miami and New York
for the weekend of the game.
United's
award search tool is impeccable in
searching award seats
for itself and almost all Star Alliance partners.
These
tools are extremely helpful and make those beginning stages of
searching for award seats much more convenient.
You can use American Airlines
award search tool to check
for availability.
I'll be writing a post in the next couple days on how to use the Flying Blue website to
search for and book
award tickets as part of a continuing series related to my Award Maximizer search
award tickets as part of a continuing series related to my
Award Maximizer search
Award Maximizer
search tool.
EXPERT FLYER LOSES STAR ALLIANCE
AWARD DATA…ExpertFlyer.com, a popular tool used to research flight availability and search for award seat space, has lost the ability to access award space data to Star Alliance carr
AWARD DATA…ExpertFlyer.com, a popular
tool used to research flight availability and
search for award seat space, has lost the ability to access award space data to Star Alliance carr
award seat space, has lost the ability to access
award space data to Star Alliance carr
award space data to Star Alliance carriers.
I'd eventually like to integrate this table with my
award chart
search tool and custom valuations to help you find the best way to accumulate the miles you need
for your next
award flight.
As a post I wrote on the free iPhone app I think every flyers should have appears to have been pretty popular I thought I'd write a post on the
tool I prefer to use when
searching for British Airways Avios
awards - BA Redemption Finder.
As I was playing around with the British Airways
Search tool, I noticed that there are as many as 6 business class
award seats available
for travelling to India next week.
The United Airlines
award search tool on United.com is useful but flawed, because it does not show
award availability
for some partners.
That makes it a great use of the
award chart
search tool that I created, which displays a separate price
for each partner.
i.e., instead of using the ANA
search tool for award availability, what do I use?
Use this
tool to
search for award space as well as availability of flight upgrades.
The best way to
search for award availability is by using expert
tools such as Expert Flyer http://www.expertflyer.com/.
You can use this
tool to
search for award availability and discover those rare
award airline seats easily.
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tool in the job
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