superflyer / ual

United Airlines inventory search

SuperFlyer United Airlines Utility

• Search united.com for fare class availability, including award and upgrade buckets.
• Set a cron job to check for availability and send yourself email when seats become available.
• Mileage run option allows querying of multiple segments over a date range
• Also includes a web interface for interactive querying.

This documentation is intentionally sparse, so use at your own risk.

Setup

1. Get a united.com account and set it to Expert Mode.
2. Get a gmail account.
3. Enter the account parameters in ual/ual.config (not included in this repo)
4. Enter your alerts in alerts/alert_defs.txt.
5. Enter your aggregate alerts in alerts/agg_alert_defs.txt (to search the same route over a range of days).
6. Enter your mileage run alerts in alerts/mr_search.txt (to search a multi-segment route over a range of days).
7. Run python ual.py --help to see command-line options.
8. Run python ual_webserver --help to see options for the webserver. The webserver runs on port 8080 by default.

Notes

• Fare class descriptions can be found here: http://cwsi.net/united.htm
• For classes O, I, R, X there is separate inventory for elites (ON/IN/RN/XN). The tool searches both at once: a search for I returning I37 means I=3, IN=7.