Creating and Managing Alerts

Alerts notify you when award availability matching your criteria is discovered. You can create alerts for specific routes, dates, mileage programs, cabins, and other preferences, then manage them from your Alerts dashboard.

Creating an alert

To create an alert:

1. Go to Alerts in the top navigation.
2. Select Create Alert.
3. Enter an optional Alert name to help organize your alerts.
4. Choose your Origin Airport(s) and Destination Airport(s).
5. Select your Departure Date(s).
6. Choose one or more Mileage Programs.
7. Select your preferred Cabin(s).
8. Choose your alert type and notification method.
9. Add any optional Advanced Filters.
10. Select Create Alert.

If you're creating several similar alerts, select Save & Create Another instead.

Note: Alerts are only available for direct routes that seats.aero currently tracks. If a route isn't supported, you'll see a message when creating the alert. Search can still return connecting itineraries even when an alert can't be created for the full route.

One-off vs. Continuous alerts

There are two types of award alerts:

• One-off alert: Notifies you when a flight matching your criteria is found, then expires. One-off alerts can't be created for an existing flight.
• Continuous alert (PRO): Keeps monitoring your criteria and can notify you when new matching flights are found or the award price drops. Continuous alerts check mileage programs less frequently.

Choosing how you're notified

You can receive alerts by Email or SMS (PRO).

When SMS is selected, you'll receive both a text message and an email when matching availability is found.

Advanced Filters

PRO members can use Advanced Filters to narrow an alert beyond the basic route, date, mileage program, and cabin criteria.

Expand Advanced Filters while creating your alert to see the available options. Available filters may vary depending on your alert criteria and mileage program.

Keep in mind that more restrictive filters mean fewer results can qualify for the alert.

Mileage programs and routes

Alerts depend on both supported routes and mileage programs, not simply the airline operating a flight.

A mileage program must support the selected route for an alert to be created. Selecting a mileage program doesn't necessarily mean every flight operated by that program's airline or its partners can be monitored.

If you receive a message that a route isn't currently tracked, check the Routes page for supported pairings.

Managing your alerts

Go to Alerts → Manage Alerts to view the alerts you've created.

Under Award Alerts, use the Award alert status dropdown to switch between:

• Active: Alerts currently monitoring for availability
• Expired: Alerts that have already expired

You'll also see separate sections for United Upgrade Alerts, Cathay Pacific Alerts, Fare Class Alerts, and Alerts for Open Seats.

Managing active alerts

Turn on Show alerts in groups to see alerts that were created together grouped under the same alert name.

From an active group, you can:

• Recreate Group
• Search using the group's criteria
• Delete Group
• Delete individual alerts
• Delete all alerts belonging to the same group

You can also rename a group using the edit icon next to its name.

Recreating an alert group

Select Recreate Group when you want to create a new set of alerts based on an existing group.

This is useful when you want to reuse an existing setup rather than build the alerts again from scratch.

Managing expired alerts

When a one-off alert finds matching availability, it expires. To see previous alerts, change Award alert status to Expired.

Expired alerts can be recreated instead of being

built again from scratch.

The Recreate menu includes:

• Recreate this alert
• Recreate with changes
• Recreate alert group

Use Recreate this alert to create the alert again using its existing criteria.

Use Recreate with changes when you want to start with the existing alert but change its dates, filters, or other criteria.

Use Recreate alert group to recreate the alerts belonging to the same group.

You can also select Permanently Delete All Expired Alerts if you no longer need your expired alert history.

Changing an existing alert

There is no separate Duplicate option in the current alert interface.

If you want to reuse an existing alert with different dates, filters, or other criteria, use the available Recreate options.

For expired alerts, choose Recreate with changes. For grouped alerts, use Recreate Group to reuse the group's setup.

Tips for creating useful alerts

• Give related alerts the same Alert name so they're easier to manage as a group.
• Add multiple origin or destination airports when you're flexible.
• Use a date range when your travel dates are flexible.
• Select multiple mileage programs when appropriate to monitor more booking options.
• Use Advanced Filters when you need more specific criteria.
• Check Expired if an alert is no longer showing under Active.

What happens when an alert finds availability?

When seats.aero discovers availability matching your alert criteria, you'll receive a notification through your selected channel.

One-off alerts are then marked as Expired and can be viewed or recreated from the Expired section of Manage Alerts.

Availability can change quickly, so always confirm the award directly with the mileage program before transferring points or making travel plans.