MileageBrain beta 3
May 1, 2011, 1:03 pm
#31
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Worldwide
Posts: 12,949
Tried looking for *A MRs out of IAD and lowest cpm choice was IAD-LAS on UA. Thought to see what the lowest cpm choice was ex-LAS and it was LAS-IAD, but at a lower cpm that the one IAD-LAS. How does a discrepancy like that come about? Aren't domestic fares generally symmetric, that is A-B-A the same price as B-A-B?
May 1, 2011, 5:54 pm
#32
Join Date: Jun 2004
Programs: united airlines
Posts: 4,967
Sorry, don't understand your response. Shouldn't one expect to be able to fly A-B-A at the same price as B-A-B, subject to availability of course. And MileageBrain, like Farecompare, is just saying that the airline has published a given fare, not that it can be booked, right?
May 1, 2011, 6:29 pm
#33
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Worldwide
Posts: 12,949
Sorry, don't understand your response. Shouldn't one expect to be able to fly A-B-A at the same price as B-A-B, subject to availability of course. And MileageBrain, like Farecompare, is just saying that the airline has published a given fare, not that it can be booked, right?
May 1, 2011, 7:06 pm
#34
Original Poster
Join Date: Aug 2010
Programs: United Mileage Plus, VX Elevate, Starwood
Posts: 123
May 3, 2011, 11:05 pm
#35
Original Poster
Join Date: Aug 2010
Programs: United Mileage Plus, VX Elevate, Starwood
Posts: 123
Quick update - If you find a great mileage run somewhere else and it doesn't appear in MileageBrain's results, it may be that we don't know to check that route for MRs! You'll now see the option to "suggest a route" at the top of your search results. These suggestions will be automatically incorporated by the algorithm within 24 hours.
Please use it to help improve the search results for yourself and everyone else!
Please use it to help improve the search results for yourself and everyone else!
May 10, 2011, 10:37 pm
#36
Moderator: American AAdvantage, Signatures
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: London, England
Programs: UA 1K, Hilton Diamond, IHG Diamond Ambassador, National Exec, AA EXP Emeritus
Posts: 9,765
I love the concept, bengl3rt! I was just doing some dummy searches, and found one thing that could make it better: since I have status on AA, I earn minimum mileage on flights under 500 miles in length. I found one "MR" (I put it in quotes because this time of year there really aren't any good MRs) that would actually have come in about 3 cents per mile cheaper when the 500 mile minimum is calculated in, since it had a bunch of short flights glued together (something like SEA-PDX-LAS-LAX-SFO-PDX-SEA). I would suggest adding a tick box for 500-mile minimum. Ideally one could select his or her airline and status and the tool would know what that person could expect for minimums and EQM earn rate, but just having a "500 mile minimum" tick box would help for now!
May 16, 2011, 4:18 pm
#37
Join Date: May 2008
Location: WAS
Programs: AA Ex Plt
Posts: 1,630
Nice program but here is my question. I search, find an itinerary, click details, then finally click "book this itinerary." Problem is that the itinerary listed doesn't price out the same (and if I read above correctly, your software actually shows available flights and not just fares - right?)
but clicking through gets me a cheapest fare of $515 a.i and for the route specified, $563 a.i
Am I doing something wrong or am I not understanding what MB can do?
Thanks for the efforts
Cheers
Details
Airline
United Airlines
Total Mileage
5796
Price
$399.8
Routing
05/28/11: IAD - MCO - ORD - LAX
05/29/11: LAX - IAD
Book this itinerary
Airline
United Airlines
Total Mileage
5796
Price
$399.8
Routing
05/28/11: IAD - MCO - ORD - LAX
05/29/11: LAX - IAD
Book this itinerary
Am I doing something wrong or am I not understanding what MB can do?
Thanks for the efforts
Cheers
May 25, 2011, 10:45 am
#38
Join Date: Aug 2004
Programs: AA Explat, UA 1K
Posts: 389
Quick update - If you find a great mileage run somewhere else and it doesn't appear in MileageBrain's results, it may be that we don't know to check that route for MRs! You'll now see the option to "suggest a route" at the top of your search results. These suggestions will be automatically incorporated by the algorithm within 24 hours.
Please use it to help improve the search results for yourself and everyone else!
Please use it to help improve the search results for yourself and everyone else!
It seems to have been down for the past few days (we have a thread over at MP discussing it http://milepoint.com/forums/threads/...working.11274/).
May 30, 2011, 7:10 am
#39
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
Posts: 2,398
Still down? Any news on when it will return?
Jul 29, 2011, 10:32 am
#40
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: ORD
Programs: AA EXP & million miler
Posts: 3,992
Anybody hear anything? Did the site get abandoned?
Aug 7, 2011, 5:58 am
#41
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: SAN
Programs: UA-GS,1.95MM, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Titanium, Hyatt Explorer
Posts: 423
I dunno. Doesn't come back with anything from any airport on any airline....
Was really looking forward to using this in Q4.....
Was really looking forward to using this in Q4.....
Aug 7, 2011, 12:07 pm
#42
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: EWR
Programs: CO Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 37
Someone might have gotten wise to their screen scraping and blocked them as it seems that everything works but the data.
Jan 3, 2012, 6:00 am
#43
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Silver, Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles Platinum
Posts: 2,374
Dead
Yes, looks like its still dead.
The blog hasnt been updated in MONTHS !
The blog hasnt been updated in MONTHS !
Feb 27, 2012, 7:44 pm
#44
Original Poster
Join Date: Aug 2010
Programs: United Mileage Plus, VX Elevate, Starwood
Posts: 123
It needed to be totally rewritten - details on the blog, but the site is back now. 
Feb 28, 2012, 4:12 pm
#45
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: New Orleans on a sabattical. My roots are in Los Angeles.
Programs: Chase Palladium, AMEX Plat, UA Plat, AA EXP, HH/SPG G, PC plat
Posts: 340
Awesome! Where are you sourcing your data?