Expertflyer vs Seats.aero

[gsta12]

Hello everyone!

I tried to do a search and couldn't get a definitive answer!

Does Expert flyer show reward seats availability (particularly Business and First) for Emirates (QFF) and for Qatar and SQ (Velcoity)? Or did I read somewhere that they no longer show some of these airlines?

Also, what are people's thoughts on expert flyer vs seats.aero pro version?

 

[pjm99au]

Seats.aero is a much better platform for finding award seats. It has some issues identifying the number of seats available for some carriers (QF comes to mind) but is much easier to use for award seat purposes.

 

[Human]

I have, and frequently use, seats.aero pro. I've never bothered with EF.

I find seats.aero clunky, but powerful -- certainly all I need when I'm looking for award seats using Qantas or Velocity points.

 

[Cynicor]

EF has quite a different use case now compared to seats.

For paid flights EF is the go, but for awards I don’t know anything better than seats.

 

[trendwhore]

seats.aero works for me, well worth the pro account. Have easily paid its value off in no time

 

[cathalm8]

Just checked out seat.aero and it looks good. Probably would have saved me days of checking sites over the last few years.

However I note it doesn't seem to include some major airlines like Qatar or British Airways. Is there another search / alert app/site that is useful for those?

I am predominately looking for international flights between Australia and Europe..

 

[levelnine]

Just checked out seat.aero and it looks good. Probably would have saved me days of checking sites over the last few years.

However I note it doesn't seem to include some major airlines like Qatar or British Airways. Is there another search / alert app/site that is useful for those?

I am predominately looking for international flights between Australia and Europe..

Seat Spy can do BA. No one can do QR directly.

On seats.aero, you can search for BA indirectly through Qantas (ie it'll see what Qantas can see) and QR indirectly through Virgin (ie it'll see what Virgin can see). Obviously that won't show flights that are only available to BA/QR's own members.

 

[drron]

For QR awards I would also use AA. I have been looking at both AA and VA. AA has more J awards available than VA otherwise the same.