When you book a flight, you focus on getting the deal: the miles, cash price, routing, or program. But once it’s booked, the seat itself can still make or break your trip.
Even after you’ve locked in your flight, getting the seat you want isn’t always guaranteed.
Airlines constantly shuffle seat availability behind the scenes. Aisles free up. Exit rows open. Blocked or preferred seats get released. Families change assignments as their plans shift. If you’ve ever refreshed the seat map again and again, hoping your ideal seat appears, you know how tedious it can be.
That’s exactly why we built Seat Alerts.
With Seat Alerts, you set your preferences once, and we’ll monitor the seat map for you. Whether you booked with points or paid cash, we keep watching in the background and notify you when your preferred seat becomes available. No more daily checks. No more missed windows.
Real Situations Where Seat Alerts Make a Difference
Even when your flight is booked, the seat map often isn’t fully settled. Airlines are constantly shifting inventory behind the scenes, and that creates opportunities if you’re paying attention.
Seat Alerts are built for moments like these:
- You booked, but only middle seats were available at the time.
- Your family or group is split across multiple rows and you want to move together.
- Exit rows, bulkheads, and extra legroom seats that are held back may open closer to departure.
- Schedule changes or equipment swaps can free up better rows.
- Airlines release blocked or elite-only seats as the flight date gets closer.
- You’re trying to move farther from lavatories, galleys, or the very back of the plane.
Instead of checking the seat map every day, Seat Alerts monitor these changes for you and send an alert as soon as your preferred seat opens up.
Works for Cash or Award Tickets
Seat Alerts track the seat map itself, not how you paid for the ticket. Whether you booked an award flight, paid cash, or used a credit card portal, you can set Seat Alerts on any eligible flight. We monitor the seat map directly and let you know when the seat you want becomes available.
Simple to Set Up
You can create a Seat Alert in two ways:
Option 1: While searching
- Run a live search and select the flight you’re interested in.
- Open the seat map.
- Click “Create Seat Alert.”
- Select your seat preferences:
- Any seat
- Any aisle seat
- Any window seat
- Exit rows
- Two or three seats together
- Select specific seats manually
- Once active, we’ll monitor the flight and notify you if your seat opens up.
Option 2: From your account settings
Submit your alert and we’ll handle the monitoring in the background.
- Go to Manage Seat Alerts.
- Click “Create Seat Alert.”
- Enter your flight details:
- Departing from
- Going to
- Operating carrier
- Flight number
- Cabin
- Your seat preferences
- Submit your alert and we’ll handle the monitoring in the background.
Free and Premium Options
- Free members can set up to 4 active Seat Alerts.
- Premium members can set up to 32 active Seat Alerts.
Seat Alerts are live and available for all users while we continue to refine and expand the feature. As we gather feedback, we’ll keep improving coverage and monitoring behind the scenes.
Seat Alerts are one more way PointsYeah helps take the hassle out of award travel. Combined with tools like live searches, Daydream Explorer, Points Price Alerts, and Hotel Alerts, you’re always one step ahead when it comes to booking smarter and traveling better.
See you in the skies!
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