Seats.aero - a useful tool for finding Qantas & Velocity reward availability

[RooFlyer]

I'm interested to try it out again, but am holding off for now in the hope they'll run another Black Friday deal (that's open to previous subscribers).

I was looking to book a business through to Amstetdsm a year from now. I did get a ride through to AMS pretty easily using Velocity points flying Qatar, but about half the seats that seats.aero said were there for the couple of days I wanted weren’t on the actual website. Not uncommon and not surprising but I thought it might be a little bit better than that.

 

[clifford]

I was looking to book a business through to Amstetdsm a year from now. I did get a ride through to AMS pretty easily using Velocity points flying Qatar, but about half the seats that seats.aero said were there for the couple of days I wanted weren’t on the actual website. Not uncommon and not surprising but I thought it might be a little bit better than that.

Yes, you have to have your wits about you.

But I've found seats.aero to be the best tool I've come across to book premium award seats
ex-Ausralia.

 

[trendwhore]

I was looking to book a business through to Amstetdsm a year from now. I did get a ride through to AMS pretty easily using Velocity points flying Qatar, but about half the seats that seats.aero said were there for the couple of days I wanted weren’t on the actual website. Not uncommon and not surprising but I thought it might be a little bit better than that.

True many times Qantas flights don't appear either when they do on Qantas website, still.. I subscribe because it's saved me a ton

 

[drron]

Just a pity it doesn't do Life Miles any more.

 

[doctorstrangelove]

I purchased a membership today as part of their Black Friday sale. I decided to do a few dummy runs to see how comprehensive it is out of the gate. FYI there appears to be some issue with Aeroplan awards availability displaying correctly - seats.aero is not picking up Air Mauritius awards availability on Aeroplan. I've e-mailed seats.aero so they can look into it.

 

[levelnine]

I purchased a membership today as part of their Black Friday sale. I decided to do a few dummy runs to see how comprehensive it is out of the gate. FYI there appears to be some issue with Aeroplan awards availability displaying correctly - seats.aero is not picking up Air Mauritius awards availability on Aeroplan. I've e-mailed seats.aero so they can look into it.

Random search shows it picking it up for me:

 

[doctorstrangelove]

Random search shows it picking it up for me:
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Ah, sorry, should have been more specific (I was in my e-mail to Aeroplan). It's PER - MRU - CDG & PER - MRU - LGW not displaying.

 

[levelnine]

Ah, sorry, should have been more specific (I was in my e-mail to Aeroplan). It's PER - MRU - CDG & PER - MRU - LGW not displaying.

seats.aero doesn't directly support connecting routes. You should be able to find availability by searching each segment though (unless Air Mauritus does married segments).

 

[anat0l]

seats.aero doesn't directly support connecting routes. You should be able to find availability by searching each segment though (unless Air Mauritus does married segments).

Basically this is the right idea. seats.aero, I believe, only gives connecting route availability if it were sold like that by the respective FF programme.

It's usually better just to research the availability of each segment, then piece it together. But of course, sometimes seats.aero doesn't quite get it right (especially when seats.aero draws on its saved searches information rather than live data), so it always pays to check the relevant FFP's page for availability.

When seats.aero returns connecting options, it is surprising what it can return as options (much as what some of us see in some searches, e.g. on QF or VA, from triple segment head scratchers to the chestnut short segment in J and longer segment in Y options)

 

[doctorstrangelove]

Basically this is the right idea. seats.aero, I believe, only gives connecting route availability if it were sold like that by the respective FF programme.

It's usually better just to research the availability of each segment, then piece it together. But of course, sometimes seats.aero doesn't quite get it right (especially when seats.aero draws on its saved searches information rather than live data), so it always pays to check the relevant FFP's page for availability.

When seats.aero returns connecting options, it is surprising what it can return as options (much as what some of us see in some searches, e.g. on QF or VA, from triple segment head scratchers to the chestnut short segment in J and longer segment in Y options)

Thanks for clarifying. My first few dummy searches threw up lots of connecting flights so I assumed it would do that for all searches. Not as automated as I would have liked if I have to potentially search by individual segment to build an itinerary, but not the end of the world.

 

[SeatsIan]

Thanks for clarifying. My first few dummy searches threw up lots of connecting flights so I assumed it would do that for all searches. Not as automated as I would have liked if I have to potentially search by individual segment to build an itinerary, but not the end of the world.

We do support live search for Pro users which can search any route combination, however this is currently disabled for Air Canada due to legal issues. Our status page shows a ️ for the supported programs with this feature. You’ll also see the ️ icon next to live search results in Search.

 

[doctorstrangelove]

We do support live search for Pro users which can search any route combination, however this is currently disabled for Air Canada due to legal issues. Our status page shows a ️ for the supported programs with this feature. You’ll also see the ️ icon next to live search results in Search.

@SeatsIan thanks, hope you can get the legal issues worked out with AC.

 

[DejaBrew]

@SeatsIan - any chance of some Black Friday love for existing/lapsed subscribers?

 

[SeatsIan]

@SeatsIan - any chance of some Black Friday love for existing/lapsed subscribers?

We don't mind if existing/lapsed users make a new account to take advantage of the Black Friday deal! You can just use a different email address/etc. It's just a bit difficult to support applying it to existing accounts in an economical way.

 

[DejaBrew]

We don't mind if existing/lapsed users make a new account to take advantage of the Black Friday deal! You can just use a different email address/etc. It's just a bit difficult to support applying it to existing accounts in an economical way.

Cheers @SeatsIan - appreciate the reply and thanks for confirming