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

[Daver6]

What do you mean?

You do know that you can't search Thai award availability with 0 miles in the account, don't you? Thai Airways blocks award searches when you have a zero balance

Yes, aware of the issue with Thai.

Confused because below implied now J availability from seats.aero

J availability 2024-10-28, 2024-11-11 and 2024-11-13. Doesn't quite meet your criteria but Y availability looks a bit better

Yet searching directly on the UA site implies there is. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. I don't want to land up transferring Amex points to TG to only find there aren't actually award seats.

 

[SYD]

Yet searching directly on the UA site implies there is. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. I don't want to land up transferring Amex points to TG to only find there aren't actually award seats.

If it’s showing on UA, I would expect it to be there on TG.

Perhaps try and discount “phantom” seats on UA by seeing how far you can get without actually purchasing?

 

[levelnine]

Yet searching directly on the UA site implies there is. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. I don't want to land up transferring Amex points to TG to only find there aren't actually award seats.

None of the scraping tools are perfect. Sometimes seats.aero misses seats.

And none of the partner booking websites are perfect either. They sometimes have phantom availability.

Only way to check with close to 100% accuracy is to call Thai.

 

[Daver6]

Just to close the loop. Spoke to Thai (not an easy feat) and no J seats. So seems like UA was showing phantom availability in J.

 

[patrickw]

I think this is the right thread to ask this question:

Situation:

* Seats.aero shows availability for a QF CR J seat from HND-SYD, bookable via AA on U stock. I can load the flight into my cart without logging in.
* QF shows no seats via Multi-city/normal booking site.
* AY via Seats.aero doesn't show this, but their QF award availability in ANZ has never been great

Why the difference? Is AA reserving U seats for their FFs?

I don't have EF, but if anyone is interested in digging further, it's QF60, 9 Jul 2024.

 

[levelnine]

I think this is the right thread to ask this question:

Situation:

* Seats.aero shows availability for a QF CR J seat from HND-SYD, bookable via AA on U stock. I can load the flight into my cart without logging in.
* QF shows no seats via Multi-city/normal booking site.
* AY via Seats.aero doesn't show this, but their QF award availability in ANZ has never been great

Why the difference? Is AA reserving U seats for their FFs?

I don't have EF, but if anyone is interested in digging further, it's QF60, 9 Jul 2024.

Prob phantom availability. AA tends to have some of it. You can check by going to the check-out page — it'll error out if it's phantom.

 

[pjm99au]

Not showing as available on EF

QF 60

HND 10:00p → SYD 8:55a J9 C7 D7 I5 U0 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S6 N6 Q6 O0 G0 X0 E0

 

[patrickw]

Thanks both - hope they convert some I5's into U closer to date.

 

[levelnine]

Thanks both - hope they convert some I5's into U closer to date.

While not impossible, I'd guess most seats will go to points upgrades.

 

[FF98]

Am I doing something wrong? Just purchased a month of seats.aero pro.
On Qantas website, there are J seats for SYD-HND end of October 2025. However, I have tried multiple searches in seats.aero and it doesn't show dates up to end of October? Seems like the latest date it is showing is 20th October.

 

[SeatsIan]

Am I doing something wrong? Just purchased a month of seats.aero pro.
On Qantas website, there are J seats for SYD-HND end of October 2025. However, I have tried multiple searches in seats.aero and it doesn't show dates up to end of October? Seems like the latest date it is showing is 20th October.

We search Qantas 353 days out, so 20th sounds about right. The Qantas website doesn’t seem to let me search any farther out than that, unless I’m missing something?

 

[FF98]

We search Qantas 353 days out, so 20th sounds about right. The Qantas website doesn’t seem to let me search any farther out than that, unless I’m missing something?

If you go to Qantas multi-city tool and key in SYD-HND for the latest available date (21st Oct in this case), the calendar view will show up to 28th October.

 

[SeatsIan]

If you go to Qantas multi-city tool and key in SYD-HND for the latest available date (21st Oct in this case), the calendar view will show up to 28th October.

Ah I see, I’ll have to check if we can push the date out farther for Qantas. We can’t use the multi-city tool for Seats.aero because you have to be logged in to use it.

In general if you are booking right at schedule open I would generally just suggest using the airline site, since there will be a bit of a delay between when we check it next and when the schedule opens up. But it would be nice to have an extra week on Seats.aero.

 

[aaa99]

I noticed option to search for >1 seat on other programs, but not on Qantas. Is this something that is coming in future? Currently, I use Alaska search to work around this for Oneworld airlines and assume Qantas would have the same availablity.

 

[SeatsIan]

I noticed option to search for >1 seat on other programs, but not on Qantas. Is this something that is coming in future? Currently, I use Alaska search to work around this for Oneworld airlines and assume Qantas would have the same availablity.

Since they don't provide us the seat counts, we're currently unable to do it for our cached results. If you are a Pro user doing live searches though (results with the ), then we did recently begin passing the # of seats from your advanced filters to Qantas during the search, and it should reflect properly.

Ideally in the future we can let you just run live searches instead of returning the cached results to help fix this issue.

 

[drron]

However searching for SYD-HND redemptions on seats aero the only J awards I can see on QF up to 21.10.25 are Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Looks like a fairly miserable search. But you can get direct J flights on NH through aeroplan on a few days.

 

[levelnine]

seats.aero singlehandedly ending ExpertFlyer.

Now displaying seat maps and fare classes for Pro users:

https://seats.aero/seatmap

https://seats.aero/fareclass

 

[RealtimeY]

I wouldn’t call it “ending” EF with these two features so far. There is a lot EF is still good for that you can’t get anywhere else.

 

[RooFlyer]

seats.aero singlehandedly ending ExpertFlyer.

Now displaying seat maps and fare classes for Pro users:

https://seats.aero/seatmap

https://seats.aero/fareclass

I’ve resubscribed for a month the other day and thought that was new.

 

[DejaBrew]

I’ve resubscribed for a month the other day and thought that was new.

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).