AOW Class Availability website

[Bob]

Does anyone know what has happened to this website? The flyaow.com/classamex page has disappeared and I can't see any alternatives that show me the fare classes available. Thanks

 

[oz_mark]

Can't answer on where it has gone, other than it may have been decommissioned - it seems to be quite old.

SeatCounter seems to be having maintenance.

ExpertFlyer, while paid, is still avaliable.

FlightsStats also lists them (Flight Availability), but you need to hover over the number for each class to see the availaibilty by class.

 

[samh004]

Class Availability Airline Flight Reservations

Seat Counter as listed there, might be best.

 

[Bob]

Thanks Mark,

The site had been working up to a few weeks ago. (Though rechecking my bookmark link it was Class Availability Airline Flight Reservations - not the /amex one I gave above - which is very old)
The flightstats link seems strange. On the flight I am interested in (QF973 TSV BNE on 20 August in business), it shows 9 I seats, but the Qantas website shows only one full price seat. The flightstats page also does not show one of the Qantas flights at all (QF971)

 

[whughes3]

The flyaow.com/classamex website, along with Seatcounter and some of the availability methods on KVS, stopped working a few weeks ago as a result of changes to the ITN system which they used as a back-end. Unfortunately there don't appear to be any alternative free sites for checking availability, apart from the Flightstats mentioned above.

 

[serfty]

... The flightstats link seems strange. On the flight I am interested in (QF973 TSV BNE on 20 August in business), it shows 9 I seats, but the Qantas website shows only one full price seat. The flightstats page also does not show one of the Qantas flights at all (QF971)

Qantas can vary availability based on verious factors, including Country of Sale and booking entity.

Flightstats gives a USA view, Qantas website is showing it's OZ version.

 

[JohnK]

The flyaow.com/classamex website, along with Seatcounter and some of the availability methods on KVS, stopped working a few weeks ago as a result of changes to the ITN system which they used as a back-end.

That is very unfortunate.

Anyone know if there are plans to get these websites up & running again?

 

[whughes3]

This has happened at least twice in the past that I can recall, and both times it was eventually restored. There are some threads on Flyertalk relating to this; do a search for posts by "flyaow" who I gather is the guy who runs the abovementioned site.

 

[Keith009]

Class Availability Airline Flight Reservations

Seat Counter as listed there, might be best.

Seat Counter now seems to allow a very limited number of queries per day.

I never got beyond the free version of KVS but it was reasonable for a free tool I think. You can't access it remotely from another computer however.

Expertflyer seemed to offer the most holistic service of all - unsurprisingly, since it's a paid service.

Bear in mind though, that all these tools can be inhibited by POS discrimination (commonly experienced with SQ, QF, BA, and to a lesser extent CX) as serfty correctly pointed out.