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Fare Bucket Class and Seat Availability
Special welcome to Flyertalk members!
These resources are provided to assist you in
finding availability of specific fare classes or specific seats -
particularly useful for finding upgrade space or special fare
availability. None
of these tools provide revenue to Airlines of the Web. If you would
like to help keep Airlines of the Web available, please consider booking
your travel via our links at: Reservations
section Thank you for your support.
Free Tools
- City Code Help -
Provides a handy
guide to the 3 letter airport codes of those hard to reach airports. You
can search the list by pressing Control-F once it has loaded.
- Amex ITN Tool - This
tool provides fare class availability for most airlines worldwide. Note
that this version of the tool does not require establishing an account or
using a password.
- ITA Software Matrix Tool - This tool allows you
to search for fares in different sales cities so that you can accurately
plan purchases in any city around the world. Additionally it has an
undocumented feature that allows you to specify specific fare buckets.
If you want to, for instance, search for A bucket availability on the
HKG-JFK route on Cathay Pacific you would enter the search as From:
HKG:: cx+ / f bc=a and To: JFK:: cx+ / f bc=a. You can substitute the
"cx" with the proper airline code for the airline you wish to check, and
substitute the "bc=a" with "bc=X" where X is the fare bucket you wish to
check. If you wish to check multiple booking-codes and not place any
restriction on the airline format the request as JFK::/ f bc=x|bc=y|bc=z
to check the x, y, and z buckets. Another undocumented feature is the
ability to request multiple segments on specific carriers (useful for
mileage runs). If you want to travel from Los Angeles to New York and
take 4 American Airlines segments, you would enter the departure city as
LAX::AA AA AA AA and the destination city as JFK::AA AA AA AA. This will
search for a 4 segment connection in each direction on AA. You can also
force connections in specific cities. So, for instance, if you wanted to
connect in STL from LAX to JFK on American Airlines you would enter the
departure city as LAX::AA STL AA and the destination city as JFK::AA STL
AA There is a full description of various commands the ITA system allows
you to use at their Route Language page. There is also a useful
discussion of how to use this tool to the fullest on Flyertalk.
- Seat
Counter
- Free tool to allow checking each fare bucket availability on all
airlines worldwide. Has "special feature" of checking award availability
on certain airlines by entering airline code twice.
- SeatGuru -
This tool allows you to get a review of which seat to select on many major
carriers.
- Air
Fare - Lists mileage run fares from various North American
cities.
- Travelocity Dream Maps - Mileage run maps with
lowest fares from various departure cities.
- Travelocity Fare List - Search for fares by
airline on various routings.
- Yahoo! Best Fares - Enter your home airport and
get a list of lowest fares to major markets. Changing the last 3 letters
of the URL to your home airport code will update to most airports in the
U.S. and Canada.
- India
Kane Yahoo! Best Fares aggregator - Aggregates Yahoo! Best Fares
data from multiple departure airports in a single table.
- Fare
Compare - Shows listings of best current and historical fares from
your departure point both in a list and graphically on a map.
- Farecast -
Predicts future price changes in specific market pairs in an attempt to
help purchase timing decisions.
- KVS Availability Tool - Downloadable availability
checker that requires registration. Offers class availability, upgrade
availability, and other data from the global reservation systems. Details
of registration procedure can be found on Flyertalk.
- FlightStats - Offers a variety of flight status
data, on time data, etc.
- ExpertFlyer.com - Paid service which provides
class availability, upgrade availability, and other data from the global
reservation systems.
- Webflyer Milemarker - Calculate air mileage
between two locations. Includes calculations for elite bonuses, class of
service bonuses, and minimum segment mileage.
- To utilize many of the fare bucket tools it is helpful to know what
the fare buckets each airline use are called. Here are some links to
lists of fare buckets available online. If you know of any additional
lists, please let us know so we can update this list: American
Airlines, Oneworld
Alliance
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