KE award now bookable on DL.com
Oct 14, 2012, 8:38 pm
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This brings a whole new series of search and display anomalies with it, but delta.com award search does appear to be able to find - and to take to the itinerary pricing page - both coach and business awards, and show KE non-stops as well as combined DL+ KE and KE + AS routings in some very early searching tests.
A little further searching shows it will bring up some KE seat maps at the itin selection screen. The recognition of all KE destinations is not complete.
Further adds:
1. Flexible date searching is not supported, a limitation shared with other partner carriers on delta.com. Clicking on a calendar date may bring up KE inventory by chance but the color-coding doesn't reflect KE availability.
2. Search by schedule, not by price. Denolloyd's one-way search methodology makes sense here.
3. If you know there's a KE non-stop between your city pair, check the non-stop box on the search page(s). It seems delta.com may need that little prod.
4. When searching by schedule the itinerary selection page will display results in two columns, coach and business. I'm seeing some selection boxes with the notation 'not available' but with a red selection button. These flights seem to be bookable. Like I said, display anomalies. (Further comment: maybe they have fixed this <24 hours because now flights showing 'not available' but with a selection button are no longer reliably going to the pricing screen.)
Delta.com seems to be able to construct and price some multi-carrier routings, as least in one-way searches. It's going to be work to search day by day but there are going to be FlyerTalkers who prefer this to calling.
Link to KE route maps. http://www.koreanair.com/local/na/gp...ng_wd_page.jsp
A little further searching shows it will bring up some KE seat maps at the itin selection screen. The recognition of all KE destinations is not complete.
Further adds:
1. Flexible date searching is not supported, a limitation shared with other partner carriers on delta.com. Clicking on a calendar date may bring up KE inventory by chance but the color-coding doesn't reflect KE availability.
2. Search by schedule, not by price. Denolloyd's one-way search methodology makes sense here.
3. If you know there's a KE non-stop between your city pair, check the non-stop box on the search page(s). It seems delta.com may need that little prod.
4. When searching by schedule the itinerary selection page will display results in two columns, coach and business. I'm seeing some selection boxes with the notation 'not available' but with a red selection button. These flights seem to be bookable. Like I said, display anomalies. (Further comment: maybe they have fixed this <24 hours because now flights showing 'not available' but with a selection button are no longer reliably going to the pricing screen.)
Delta.com seems to be able to construct and price some multi-carrier routings, as least in one-way searches. It's going to be work to search day by day but there are going to be FlyerTalkers who prefer this to calling.
Link to KE route maps. http://www.koreanair.com/local/na/gp...ng_wd_page.jsp
Last edited by 3Cforme; Oct 16, 2012 at 6:57 am
Oct 14, 2012, 9:50 pm
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This brings a whole new series of search and display anomalies with it, but delta.com award search does appear to be able to find - and to take to the itinerary pricing page - both coach and business awards, and show KE non-stops as well as combined DL+ KE and KE + AS routings in some very early searching tests.
Oct 14, 2012, 10:49 pm
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Finally able to see biz space
IAD-ICN is available
but if you specify nonstop it only shows it on days it is there and then crashes if there is no availability the next day.
VERY buggy.
Perhaps we can pass a hat around and ask for the AA / CO guys who seem to have done it in no time to do it for DL
?what happened to the old NW ones there - retired w golden parachutes?
Really all they needed to do was keep the old NW booking engine for awards.
IAD-ICN is available
but if you specify nonstop it only shows it on days it is there and then crashes if there is no availability the next day.
VERY buggy.
Perhaps we can pass a hat around and ask for the AA / CO guys who seem to have done it in no time to do it for DL
?what happened to the old NW ones there - retired w golden parachutes?
Really all they needed to do was keep the old NW booking engine for awards.
Oct 14, 2012, 11:25 pm
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I can't get Delta.com's "search by price" to pick "low" flights on Alaska Airlines if the only "low" availability is in first class and not coach. Had to search by schedule to find them.
I wonder if KE searches are buggy in the same way as AS's.
However, since there is no tool to identify KE award inventory ahead of poking around Delta.com, perhaps that means we have to "search by schedule" and try every permutation.
I wonder if KE searches are buggy in the same way as AS's.
However, since there is no tool to identify KE award inventory ahead of poking around Delta.com, perhaps that means we have to "search by schedule" and try every permutation.
Oct 14, 2012, 11:52 pm
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I see LAX-GRU availability.
Also LAX-NRT-ICN-SYD for 150K miles! Although typical Delta sells me a connection that will not work ...
Economy = KE.X and Business = KE.O
However, if it shows up in simple "one-way" or "round-trip" searches, the same space doesn't show up with "multi-city" searches.
Also LAX-NRT-ICN-SYD for 150K miles! Although typical Delta sells me a connection that will not work ...
Economy = KE.X and Business = KE.O
However, if it shows up in simple "one-way" or "round-trip" searches, the same space doesn't show up with "multi-city" searches.
Last edited by amolkold; Oct 15, 2012 at 12:31 am
Oct 15, 2012, 5:59 am
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Good news, and good on DL for bringing a real enhancement to us ^, except that noobs will now hoover up the availability and leave us dry.
Oct 15, 2012, 6:10 am
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