This service allows you to find out what flights are available between a pair of cities on a specific date.
This will show the Point of Sale option. This setting is remembered for future searches.
Enter the airport you want to leave from. You may either type the 3-letter airport code or the first 3 letters of the airports name or location to see a list of airports.
Enter the airport you want to arrive to. You may either type the 3-letter airport code or the first 3 letters of the airports name or location to see a list of airports.
The date you want to leave.
This drop down list gives you a time of day you want the search to start from. Some city pairs have many flights that operate and all the flights for one day cannot be listed. By setting a time, only those flights from that time forward will be listed. If there are many flights in the day, not all flights will be listed. In that case, advance the Depart Time to a later time in the day to see additional, later departing flights.
This feature is only available to Premium subscribers. This drop down gives you the ability to specify the number of days of which the search will take place relative specified. For example, if you specify a date of 10 Jan 2008 and select +/- 2 Days from the drop down, a total of five queries will be made for the dates 8 Jan 2008 through 12 Jan 2008 inclusive.
There are several optional parameters that can be entered to further restrict the search and the results:
This optional entry will display return flights from the arriving airport to the departing airport on the date you specify.
This drop down list gives you a time of day you want the search to start from. Some city pairs have many flights that operate and all the flights for one day cannot be listed. By setting a time, only those flights from that time forward will be listed. If there are many flights in the day, not all flights will be listed. In that case, advance the Return Time to a later time in the day to see additional, later departing flights.
This is a very powerful search option. By specifying one or two airports in these boxes the query will only search for flights that connect through the airport(s) specified. This allows you to see flights that only connect through one specific airport, which may be desirable for weather related or logistical reasons or to plan mileage runs.
You can search for flights on up to three particular airlines only. Enter the airline's two-letter code or the first two letters of the airlines name to get a list of matching airlines. If left blank, the query will return flights on all available airlines.
Instead of searching by Airline Code, you can search by all airlines within an airline alliance.
This check box will eliminate showing any connecting flights that do not match any Airline Code(s) you specified for the search. This feature is only available if there is an airline or alliance specified.
If no class is specified the query will return results for all saleable classes that the airline normally offers. These are called the fare buckets and show you the minimum number of seats presently available for sale at that fare class. Sometimes there are more seats available at that fare class.
You may specify up to nine (9) class codes to filter for in you search. You may specify them in any way you like (ie: "ABC" or "A,B,C" or "A B C" etc)
NOTE: you can NOT use the Class Code Filter to see Hidden classes. The hidden Award and Upgrade classes are only available via the Award and Upgrade Availability Search.
This option will limit your search with the following options:
With some airlines, if the results contain no direct flights, then any available non-direct flights will be shown even if Direct/Non-Stop Only is selected.
Some airlines have the ability to show different availability for a flight depending on where you are in the world. ExpertFlyer will by default show the airlines inventory from a USA based Point of Sale. However this can be changed to a UK Point of Sale by selecting the "UK" option from the Point of Sale preference.
Note: Any Flight Alert that is subsequently created from a Flight Availability search that used the UK Point of Sale will itself be checked using the UK Point of Sale.