Peer-to-peer

What is 'peer-to-peer'?

Peer-to-peer refers to websites, Facebook groups, or apps where you can post a load request for an airline other than your own  and hope that someone from that airline will respond with actual load details.

Advantages of peer-to-peer

You will get true figures of the number of open seats, usually for each cabin on the aircraft. Your respondent may also be able to let you know how many others are listed on standby.
You can help others by providing loads from your own airline. On some apps this means you can 'mine' free credits.

Limitations

Some apps require you to purchase credits
Many airlines, especially smaller ones with fewer employees may take hours or days to respond. And some may not respond at all.
While some airlines will give their own employees unlimited access to load information, others will limit load visibility, only making it available 3 or 4 days prior to departure.

idDeals does not have these limitations. For a single subscription you have access to instant load forecasts on almost airlines worldwide. You can make request as often as you like (subject to fair use policy - see terms and conditions).
Using idDeals together with peer-to-peer  can be a very powerful combination.
If you are not already a member of idDeals find out more now

Table Summary

Information as provided by survey from idDeals members, June 2023.
If you would like to amend or add to this table please let us know

Airline Code Can provide loads Anytime* Can see number who are  listed
Aer Lingus EI yes yes no
AeroMexico AM yes restricted yes
Air Canada AC yes yes yes
Air New Zealand NZ yes restricted yes
Alaska Airlines AS yes yes yes
American AA yes yes yes
Avianca AV/2K yes restricted yes
Bonza AB no - -
British Airways BA yes yes yes
Calm Air MO no - -
Cathay Pacific CX yes yes yes
Cityjet WX no - -
Condor DE yes restricted yes
Copa CM yes restricted no
Croatia Airlines OU no - -
Delta DL yes yes yes
Emirates EK yes restricted yes
Etihad EY yes yes yes
Eurowings EW yes yes yes
Fiji FJ no - -
FlyDubai FZ yes no no
Hong Kong Airlines HX yes yes yes
ITA AZ yes restricted no
Jazz QK yes yes yes
Jetstar JQ yes yes yes
KLM KL yes yes yes
Kuwait KU yes restricted no
Kuwait Airways KW yes restricted yes
LATAM LA/LP yes yes yes
Lufthansa LH yes yes yes
Malalysian MH no - -
Oman Air WY yes restricted yes
Porter PD yes yes yes
Qantas QF yes yes yes
Qatar QR yes restricted yes
SAS SK yes restricted yes
Saudia SV yes yes no
Southwest WN yes yes yes
Transavia TO yes restricted yes
TUI BY yes restricted yes
United Airlines UA yes yes yes
Virgin Atlantic VS yes yes yes
Viva Aerobus VB no - -
Volotea V7 no - -
Westjet WS yes yes yes

 

*restricted - usually only within 4 days of departure