How to lookup seat/fare bucket availablity

[Daver6]

I've seen people post this information. Where do you find such information? Ie, for a given flight on a given day, how can I check the number of unsold Y and J seats?

Thanks

David

 

[opusman]

Expert Flyer is one source.

 

[Daver6]

Expert Flyer is one source.

I assume that requires the pro version?

 

[Danger]

I've seen people post this information. Where do you find such information? Ie, for a given flight on a given day, how can I check the number of unsold Y and J seats?

Thanks

David

Accurate information is probably not available to anyone outside of the airline.

However, as mentioned ExpertFlyer is about as good as it gets. The free version will give you the minimum number of seats an airline is willing to sell in a particular fare bucket. Even then, though, it does not necessarily correlate with actual available seats.

For example, if you see J5 C5 D1 I0 for a Qantas flight, it says that Qantas is willing to see a minimum of five seats in full fare (J) Business and none in deep discount Business (I). But it's Business class where last minute cancellations, due to often being free or almost penalty-free, means that there actually be less than five actual seats unsold in Business.

This thread may help.

 

[JohnK]

Are any free versions still available?

 

[Daver6]

Are any free versions still available?

Not that I could find. I gave up on my quest.

 

[Danger]

Are any free versions still available?

ExpertFlyer has a free option.

Not that I could find. I gave up on my quest.

If you post your request on AFF someone will always check it out for you.

 

[JohnK]

ExpertFlyer has a free option.

The trial version or genuine free option without obligation to purchase subscription?

 

[Danger]

The trial version or genuine free option without obligation to purchase subscription?

The free version gives you a generous number of free look-ups per month. It served me well for several months but now I have the paid version.

 

[dajop]

A note with expert flyer that there is variation in availability from airlines in different buckets depending on point of sale. Not so much of an issue when flights are wide open, but as flights become fuller the correlation with airline availability is not perfect when using a different point of sale.

For example i find that SQ availability for flights bought in Singapore or Australia on SQ website are often different to what is seen on Exper Flyer, when selecting US as point of sale, but much more strongly correlated when selecting UK as point of sale.


But generally it is pretty good, and we too started with the free service with a few queries a month and soon found it worthwhile to take out an annual subscription.

 

[Daver6]

The free version gives you a generous number of free look-ups per month. It served me well for several months but now I have the paid version.

I must be an idiot (some will agree), but I can't see how you can do that in the free version

 

[Danger]

I must be an idiot (some will agree), but I can't see how you can do that in the free version

I might be giving everyone a steer in the wrong direction. It's been over a year since I've had the paid version so I could well be wrong.

 

[Daver6]

I might be giving everyone a steer in the wrong direction. It's been over a year since I've had the paid version so I could well be wrong.

Don't discount my stupidity though