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readerr0r on 16/10/2024 - 11:52 seats.aero (451 clicks)
Last edited 16/10/2024 - 11:53 by 1 other user

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Been using this for a while and was waiting for a deal to renew. Great service, especially when hunting for international business reward seats on Velocity as the Virgin website offers no way to filter to just premium or business class.

This let me figure out availability for multiple programs at the same time and get a feel for when seats are released.

You can also setup sms or email alerts for a date range should a seat show up, handy way start building an itinerary for periods you’re available.

Works for both Qantas and Virgin, plus some popular international mileage plans such as Alaska and Aeroplan.

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  adrianhughes1998 on 16/10/2024 - 12:04

  +2

  Good find, I swear by this service too. Helped me out heaps although it does get confused at times when you try too many searches at once.

  Ultimately works a treat and helped me find business seats for the family when Velocity website was doing my head in.

  Highly recommended.

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    nightelves on 16/10/2024 - 12:05

    +1

    Does it find seats for code share? Like award seats using Velocity for Singapore Airlines? Also is the search parameters easy to use? I’m interested in this as well.

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      readerr0r on 16/10/2024 - 12:08

      Yep it’ll find any rewards seats as part of the program you’re interested in. Ie velocity will find Qatar, Singapore air, ANA, United etc.

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        nightelves on 16/10/2024 - 12:10

        When it find seats do they reflect on the Velocity website or you have to call in and get the agent to check?

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          readerr0r on 16/10/2024 - 12:11

          @nightelves: It’s just automatically searching the velocity website for you

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            nightelves on 16/10/2024 - 12:14

            @readerr0r: My question is if I see a flight Mel-Sin in business through this search engine. Will it show the same thing on the Velocity website or I will have to call an agent to verify the seat and get them to book it over the phone.

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              readerr0r on 16/10/2024 - 12:17

              @nightelves: Once it finds one you can just book via velocity website as normal. It even probvides a link to the exact search on the velocity page though you may need to manually adjust the number of seats yourself (even if you search for more than one available seat)

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    nightelves on 16/10/2024 - 12:16

    From your experience how successful are you at finding seats in business class for a family of 4? It’s rare that Velocity ever release that many business class seats.

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      vawiyoci on 16/10/2024 - 12:24

      Thought SQ does or use to? Or do you just have to snap them up as soon as they're released after midnight or whenever otherwise there's only the double or odd seats left. But yeah it's a lot harder to find international J seats for families instead of just a couple. Seems like the middle eastern and US airline's rewards programs are more generous in this regard.

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        AircraftFreight on 16/10/2024 - 13:57

        +1

        SQ generally releases 4 J seats on all Europe bound flights (excl. LHR) and to Australia and within Asia.
        North America only sees 2 J seats being released at the back end of the calendar.

        However the issue with Velocity is that the calendar only opens up 330 days prior to departure, versus the 355-360 days on other star alliance reward partners, so you are getting the crumbs.

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          vawiyoci on 16/10/2024 - 14:16

          @AircraftFreight: Yeah I had some trouble awhile back trying to find 2x return J seats through SIN with SQ on Virgin's website even as far out as your release dates. While on Krisflyer there were still heaps available for the same dates and weeks.

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          Bargain-er on 06/11/2024 - 10:27

          @AircraftFreight: Hmm that sucks coz i was thinking to boom 4 biz class to or from LHR. Is it only 4 biz class released for the entire flight for all destinations? Gotta fight with other points redeemers? Not much at all hey.

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      adrianhughes1998 on 16/10/2024 - 14:45

      Had no issues with three of us, but can understand difficulties with four or more :(

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  Omarko on 16/10/2024 - 12:09

  +1

  I find the rewards seats search on Qantas works ok. What will this do as extra ? My main issue with Qantas search is lack of availability of awards seats in general. Will this search show me something I cant see on Qantas site? Genuinely curious how this works.

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    nightelves on 16/10/2024 - 12:10

    Yeah wanting to know this also.

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    readerr0r on 16/10/2024 - 12:13

    +2

    It’s just a search bot. I find the Qantas multi city tool is quite robust but this is handy for automated alerts for routes you might not want to manually keep tabs on all the time

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      vawiyoci on 16/10/2024 - 12:21

      +3

      It's a really streamlined, fast and efficient way of looking at available flights and you can even search multiple origin/destinations cities at the same time etc. Versus dealing with the almost painstakingly slow scrolling and loading on qantas and velocity's own websites (the latter of which still doesn't even have international multi-city search yet in 2024). I haven't bothered with the annual subscription myself though.

      There's also a few local competition now if you're only after Qantas/Virgin rewards programs (gyoza and some guy was spruiking his flightseats.io on the QFF subreddit).

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      theredrabitt on 16/10/2024 - 16:25

      I think the (Qantas) issue no tool can fix is their change to Classic Plus as opposed to Classic Rewards seats. In addition, they appear to no longer release seats a year in advance (regardless of status).

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    dahax77 on 16/10/2024 - 16:49

    it won't show you anything you can't theoretically find yourself - you'll actually find more on the Qantas site as this is delayed data.

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  OGGazelle on 16/10/2024 - 12:09

  Not working for me? Is it for first time users? Previously had this ~12 months ago

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    readerr0r on 16/10/2024 - 12:21

    Can always get another email ;)

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  happydude on 16/10/2024 - 12:41

  +1

  Also consider https://flightseats.io/

  It is a little bit more than that this seats.areo on an annual basis but its only $12 a month without commitment. It also does seat maps and loads more like Expert Flyer.

  I also prefer the interface and it's supporting a local business.

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    vawiyoci on 16/10/2024 - 14:23

    His layout is crazy fluid though I find the results are a bit inaccurate once you try to look up the positive hits on Qantas. Also wonder how he manages to extract the exact seat quantity numbers since Qantas keeps it hidden and seats.aero is unable to show it.

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      downhillmtbr on 22/10/2024 - 14:14

      He has a Chrome extension. If I was to guess, it might be that he's using the extension to capturing data that's pretty hard to get from crawling or using private APIs.

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  Corgsta on 16/10/2024 - 12:43

  +1

  Seems expensive for a search engine tool. $120/year means you’d want to save this much every year in getting rewards seats you otherwise might miss by looking manually. That’s if you use it only for the alert function.

  I can’t justify it with the odd or yearly domestic or international family holiday.

  Maybe only for the really frequent international flyers?

  What other websites are there (I guess not as good)?

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  tumsum on 16/10/2024 - 12:49

  I enjoy looking at reward seats but cannot justify a service like this when i dont earn enough points to redeem something. if there a group willing to chip in then i would be keen, similar to a family plan

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  seboya on 16/10/2024 - 13:26

  +1

  Great website, particularly for putting alerts on seats you want; although it really makes it clear that my Qantas FF points are basically worthless for getting international flights due to Qantas' piss-poor seat availability.

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  ajole on 16/10/2024 - 14:31

  Hmm limited use for Asia and Europe.

  I use…

  For Qantas/Oneworld, BA Executive club

  For VA use VFF for domestic, short haul VA operated international. SQ KrisFlyer for codeshare.