I hate to say it, but I think this is the biggest improvement to the Delta SkyMiles program in years. Even more frustrating to me than Delta's devalued mileage currency is how incredibly incompetent their SkyMiles agents are. Up until now there was no way to search Korean Air award availability online, which meant the…
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If you want a free interface to search the Korean inventory (and several others) including alerts there is also my Reward Search site: http://wandr.me/AirlineAwards.
I'm making a few updates to it this weekend to further improve the data display, but the functionality is solid. You don't even need to remember the specific buckets as I've programmed that in for you.
Oh, and it covers more than just Korean.
Enjoy!
Yeah!!
Sadly, I decided this week that the best use for our millions of Skymiles was 167 r/t upgrades from K class to G class SFO-ATL. Now, finally another decent way to use SkyMiles. Best FF news in weeks.
I'm sure Jeff Robertson will quickly find a way to put an end to this.
Being based in ATL and mainly redeeming for north Asia business class awards...I'm excited! Now i only hope the Skymiles agent will agree to try to book the spaces we are seeing on expert flyer..
Well as usual EF is a tool that gives lots of misinformation. If you see 2 seats available on the KE long-haul flights to the states there are 0 flights available. If you see 3 then there is 1 seat available.
Ben,
Korean Air awards seem like a good use of Chase Sapphire points - would you agree? Can we transfer Chase points into their program for 1st class awards?
@ Kevin -- I'll have a post on this by Tuesday at the latest. It's in the works. 🙂
@ dmodemd -- They do have coach awards, though they just don't show up on Expert Flyer.
@Nathan, We don’t claim that the award inventory shown is available to partners, just that it is available to that airlines frequent flyers. It may or may not be available to partner programs as well. Our information, as usual, is accurate.
Not seeing O inventory information for KE on EF for any dates for a variety of routes searched for later this month (outside of published blackout dates). Am I missing something or did KE pull this information from being available to EF?
EF just confirmed that O inventory is no longer available for routes outside of Asia.