Expert Flyer showing no availability?

[prf31]

Hi All,

I'm new to Expert Flyer and am trying to get my head around how to use it best. Putting it through its paces has be a bit confused, however.

As a test case, I searched for award availability on VA to see whether or not I could get the same seat to show up on Expert Flyer. I found an award seat in business class (Z) on VA1 for 31 Oct 18 through the VA site, however, in running exactly the same search through Expert Flyer I found no availability.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this would be the case or where I am going wrong in my search parameters? Is it common to have such mismatches?

Cheers!

 

[Mattg]

I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Unfortunately, while Expert Flyer is pretty good, it's not 100% reliable for VA. I think it gets its information from the Delta website, which probably wasn't/isn't showing that seat on 31/10.

 

[prf31]

That's good to know. I guess I will just press ahead with that in mind. Thanks, Matt!