How to Use Seat Alerts

Seat Alerts help you monitor seat availability after you’ve booked your flight.

Instead of checking the seat map every day, PointsYeah watches for changes and notifies you when a seat matching your preferences becomes available.

Whether you booked with points or paid cash, Seat Alerts can help you move into a better seat when one opens up.

What Can Seat Alerts Monitor?

Seat Alerts can notify you when a variety of seat types become available, including:

• Any available seat
• Window seats
• Aisle seats
• Exit row seats
• Two or three seats together
• Specific seats you choose on the seat map

Because airlines frequently update seat assignments before departure, a preferred seat that isn’t available today may open later.

How to Create a Seat Alert

You can create a Seat Alert in two ways.

From a Live Search

If you’ve found a flight in Live Search:

1. Open the flight’s seat map.
2. Select Create Seat Alert.
3. Choose the type of seat you’d like to monitor.
4. Save your alert.

PointsYeah will begin monitoring the seat map automatically.

From Your Account

You can also create a Seat Alert without starting from a search.

Go to My Seat Alerts, then select Create Seat Alert.

You’ll be asked to enter:

• Departure airport
• Arrival airport
• Operating airline
• Flight number
• Cabin
• Your preferred seat type

Once saved, PointsYeah begins monitoring immediately.

How Many Seat Alerts Can I Create?

Free accounts can have up to 4 active Seat Alerts.

PointsYeah Premium increases that limit to 32 active Seat Alerts.

You can pause or delete alerts at any time to free up available alert slots.

How You’ll Be Notified

When a seat matching your preferences becomes available, PointsYeah will notify you so you can return to the airline and select it before someone else does.

Notifications are available through:

• Email
• Your My Seat Alerts dashboard

Things to Know

Seat Alerts monitor the seat map itself, not how you paid for your ticket.

That means they work whether you booked:

• An award ticket
• A cash ticket
• A ticket purchased through a travel portal

Seat availability ultimately depends on the airline, and seats may become available as travelers change flights, aircraft are swapped, or airlines release previously blocked seats.