Alas. Almost like the airlines are trying to make life harder for their potential customers. Freaks!
Expedia Airline Fare List U.K. version. This one allows you to search via a particular airline – which is useful if you need a specific booking class or need more complete routing rules as the lower fares don’t necessarily have all the rules listed because of space constraints. Use XE.com to convert currency if need be - however when you click on the Routing Rules, it should bring the fares up in US Dollars.
To recap what we're talking about: Expedia.co.uk used (until this past weekend) to offer an interface for searching all published fares on a given route (origin & destination) on a given carrier. Available data included booking code, price, and fare rules (routing, penalties, advance booking, ec.).
With the expedia.co.uk service gone, what to do? Expedia.com has substantially the same data but doesn't allow specification of a particular carrier. It only shows the top dozen or so results, and with many carriers publishing fares on most markets, this means Expedia.com is only useful for the absolute lowest fares. No good for finding YUPs, unrestricted medium fares, or other interesting gems.
Any other possibilities here? Other services?
What a pain! Who ever heard of an industry that won't tell you what products they're willing to sell!...
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To recap what we're talking about: Expedia.co.uk used (until this past weekend) to offer an interface for searching all published fares on a given route (origin & destination) on a given carrier. Available data included booking code, price, and fare rules (routing, penalties, advance booking, ec.).
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Does anyone have a copy of the mileage run primer, or know where else it can be found on the web? I tried clicking the link from the original post and received this message:
Failed Connection.
We're sorry. Your request failed to connect to our servers. We may be experiencing technical difficulties and suggest that you try again later.
I am trying to plan a few work-related mileage runs in the next few days and I have never done it before, so I would like to see how I get the best mileage bang for the boss' buck!
Does anyone have a copy of the mileage run primer, or know where else it can be found on the web? I tried clicking the link from the original post and received this message:
Failed Connection.
We're sorry. Your request failed to connect to our servers. We may be experiencing technical difficulties and suggest that you try again later.
I am trying to plan a few work-related mileage runs in the next few days and I have never done it before, so I would like to see how I get the best mileage bang for the boss' buck!
Thanks,
Stevekoe
Some days it appears to be up & somedays it appears to be down. The MR Primer didn't make the transformation, so the only usable copy seems to be an archived copy. If anyone has a copy (i.e they pay have copied & pasted into a printable file or something when it was still active), or if the links start working again & they'd be willing to copy & paste it into a word document or a new post, that'd be really helpful - I realize that it links to a lot of other things in the Primer, but if anyone's got the initiative to try to recreate the Primer (or even chapters of it), I'm sure that'd be appreciated by all.
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I fell in love in the porta potty line in the parking lot of some show.
I've added content in the second post, above Mileage Run's Greatest for Qixo.com, Sidestep Hotels/Cars, & Fare Chaser based on an article in the WSJ. I don't know how useful these will prove to be for Mileage Runs directly, but they may help out. Qixo.com works similarly to Mobissimo from what I understand - searches multiple sites. I think it has a $20 booking fee though.
See the 2nd post for details.
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I fell in love in the porta potty line in the parking lot of some show.
uhoh...
