Hi Edvard - thanks for your message.
MyFlights allows two types of monitoring.
BASIC, SILVER and GOLD have Booking monitoring, which monitors that actual reservation held with the airline/Amadeus and is personal to you. It has your seat number, frequent flyer number, which flights you’re taking etc.. This information comes from Amadeus.
SILVER and GOLD also have Flight and Connection monitoring, which monitors information about the flights, such as whether they’re delayed leaving, late arriving, baggage belt information, and whether you’re likely to make your connecting flights. This information comes from another data provider.
Lufthansa have blocked Amadeus from accessing their data, which means that Booking monitoring (and locating bookings) can’t be done for Lufthansa bookings. However as the flight and connection monitoring comes from another provider, that can still function.
So Flight monitoring (which is information about the flight, but not information about your booking) doesn't need any data from Amadeus or Lufthansa, so that will still work
The only way (for any status) to be able to use booking monitoring for Lufthansa flights is if they’re booked by a travel agent.
Edvard: If the booking reference is provided by an Amadeus Travel Agency, the app WILL do booking monitoring for Lufthansa Group? Does this include OTA such has Expedia?
Chris:
I don't know exactly what criteria means a booking made by a travel agent will work, but most ones I've seen work if not booked with LH.
Some travel agents are more brokers than travel agents, and they just book directly with the airline (which means it won't work on Amadeus), but if the Travel Agent is an Amadeus one, then booking with them should mean it works (as they will need to be able to access the booking, and they're outside the LH ecosystem)
So, I've just had a look in the database. There are about 1500 currently live future bookings of LH flights that are currently being monitored.
And that's without even looking at LX, Austrian etc. Those are all booked through Travel agents from various countries.
Of those, around 50 are booked through Expedia, including Expedia.de, .fr etc.
I'm holding off saying 'if you book with expedia it'll definitely be ok', but maybe suggest people on the forum who happen to have LH bookings with expedia try them to see if they all work – social experiment