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Where does the KVS tool get its data and is KVS authorized to provide this data in the manner it is presented?

The tool is known to access a variety of web sites, many in a manner that is not authorized. Please see the next section of this Wiki for a list of sites believed to be accessed and their data access policies (where known).

Additionally, under some conditions the tool appears to access sites via a KVS-operated back end. This means that the tool is not just a 'web browser' that runs via a user's machine. No detailed public information is available about how this works or whether any of this back-end access is authorized.

Websites KVS Accesses and their relevant Terms of Use

http://book.aircanada.com/pl/AConlin...verrideServlet
http://book.aircanada.com/pl/AConlin...PreviewServlet
https://book.aircanada.com/pl/AConli...verrideServlet
https://www.aircanada.com
Terms of Use:

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http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/legal/notice.html
Use of our web site for any other purpose, including any commercial use or purpose, is expressly prohibited.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you agree that, in using or accessing our website, you shall not commit or participate in any of the following acts or actions, each of which is expressly prohibited under this User Agreement:
directly or indirectly, use or access, or encourage, solicit, permit, facilitate, aid, assist or abet, including, but not limited to, the selling, licensing, distribution or provision to any person of any means that permit, the use or access, or agree to provide the use or access, of our website through any manual process or any automatic, electronic or technical device, including but not limited to automated scripts, robots, crawls, screen scrapers, web "bots", deep-links, indexes, spiders, click-spams, macro programs, or any other device, program, software, system, algorithm, methodology or technology, now known or hereinafter discovered, that performs the same or a similar function, in order to, without limitation: "data mine"; "screen scrape"; data process; access, extract, copy, distribute, aggregate or acquire information; generate impressions or clicks; input or store information; search or generate searches; or manipulate or monitor any portion or content of our website;

http://data.flight24.com/flights/
Terms of Use:

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http://www.flightradar24.com/terms-and-conditions
Website’s information and Services are provided for personal, non-commercial use only. Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on Flightradar24’s web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

Modify or copy the materials;
Use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Flightradar24's web site;
Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
Transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Flightradar24 at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

http://data.seatexpert.com/tpi/find.php
Terms of Use:

http://plane.lan.com/cgi-bin/recibo_...bo_eticket.cgi
Terms of Use:

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http://www.lan.com/en_us/sitio_perso...-use/about-us/
You may use the information on our site solely for non-commercial purposes, and any use or modification of the website contents is not permitted.

http://reservations.usairways.com/Default.aspx
Terms of Use:

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http://reservations.usairways.com/en-US/aboutus/site_usage_policy.html
Content may be used for non-commercial personal use only, and you agree not to modify, copy, transmit, distribute, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, sell or otherwise transfer any information, software, products or services obtained from the Site without prior written permission from US Airways. You agree not to use any automatic device, manual process, or scraping to monitor or copy the Site or the content contained therein for any purpose without US Airways’ prior written permission. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site.

https://book.austrian.com/app/fb.fly
Terms of Use:

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http://www.austrian.com/Info/LegalRegulations/WebsiteTerms.aspx?sc_lang=en&cc=AT
2. Proprietary rights
All trademark rights, copyrights, database rights and other intellectual property rights to the contents of the Austrian-website, (as well as the organization and layout of the website), together with the underlying software code rest, either with Austrian or with its licensors. You may not, either in whole or in part, copy, modify, distribute or use or reproduce in other form contents of the Austrian-website, or the underlying software code, without the prior written consent of Austrian.

3. Permissible use
All Austrian-website online services (including the booking machine) are provided solely for the purpose of enabling you to check the availability of goods or services relating to your journey (the timetable, for example), make legitimate reservations, use our online check-in or transact other business with suppliers. You may only use the website in accordance with these terms and conditions and for the legally permitted purposes described above. In particular, you indicate your agreement to the following:
...
3.5 You may not reproduce information from the Austrian-website for commercial purposes. This also includes providing prices for Austrian flights on another website or another online server. In particular you may not copy, distribute, in other way use or reproduce discarded content from the Austrian-website with the help of 'robots', other search machine technologies or through other automatic mechanisms.

https://booking.qatarairways.com/qri...Booking.action
Terms of Use:

https://book.tam.com.br/TAM/dyn/air/...ng/retrievePNR
Terms of Use:

https://classic.checkmytrip.com/plne...ievePNR.action
Terms of Use:

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(D) not to use any automated system or software to extract data from the Application, Documents or Services for commercial purposes (such as screen scraping);

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https://mytripandmore.com/TermsAndConditions.aspx
Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, you may not:
...
9. use any "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, software, program, algorithm, routine, methodology, or any manual process or functionality:
...to monitor, assemble, analyse, index, copy, transmit, distribute, transfer, or link to any of the pages, data, materials, or content available on the Site,

https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/PilotWe...yICAOAction.do
Terms of Use:

https://prefunds.aa.com/refunds/receipt
https://www.aa.com/reservation/findReservationSubmit.do
Terms of Use:

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https://www.aa.com/i18n/footer/siteUsage.jsp
Intellectual property notifications
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D. American Airlines owns or uses by permission all software contained on the Site, including without limitation all HTML code and Active X controls. Copyright and other laws and international treaty provisions protect this software. The law expressly prohibits any modification, redistribution, or reproduction of the software, and such actions could result in severe civil and criminal penalties. American Airlines will seek and support prosecuting violators to the maximum extent possible.
E. You may not copy, display, distribute, download, license, modify, publish, re-post, reproduce, reuse, sell, transmit, use to create a derivative work, or otherwise use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes. Nothing on the Site shall be construed to confer any grant or license of any intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, by implication, or otherwise.
...
Limitations on your use:
You agree that you will not Misuse the Site. "Misuse" includes, but is not limited to, using the Site to do any of the following:
...
L. Copy or create derivative works from, display, distribute, license, perform, publish, recreate, reproduce, sell, transfer, or transmit any information, products, services, or software obtained by, from, or through the Site.
M. Monitor or copy any Content by using any manual process, or any robot, spider, or other automatic device, without first obtaining American Airlines' prior written consent.

https://raw.github.com/opentraveldat...i_airlines.csv
Terms of Use:

https://secure.jetairways.com/PlatformID/Identify.aspx
Terms of Use:

https://tickets.airtran.com/SeatAvailability.aspx
Terms of Use:

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http://www.southwest.com/html/about-...ons/index.html
Prohibited Activities

You may not copy, display, distribute, download, license, modify, publish, re-post, reproduce, reuse, sell, transmit, use to create a derivative work, or otherwise use the content of this site for public or commercial purposes without our express written permission. Nothing on this site shall be construed to confer any grant or license of any intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, by implication, or otherwise.

You may not modify, re-render, frame, mirror, truncate, add to, inject, filter or change the order of the information contained on any page of the Southwest Airlines sites, including, without limitation, by any way of reproducing Southwest Airlines or SWABiz® web pages or Company information on any other web site without our express written permission.

You may not copy, derive, edit, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, modify, use, or reproduce any code or source relating to our sites, including without limitation, any service or product Southwest offers.

You may not cause to appear any pop-up, pop-under, exit windows, expanding buttons, banners advertisement, or anything else which minimizes, covers, or otherwise inhibits the full display of the Southwest Airlines sites.

You may not use any deep-link, page-scrape, robot, crawl, index, spider, click spam, macro programs, Internet agent, or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology which does the same things, to use, access, copy, acquire information, generate impressions or clicks, input information, store information, search, generate searches, or monitor any portion of the Southwest Airlines sites or Company information.
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You may not disguise the origin of information transmitted to, from, or through the Southwest Airlines sites. You may not circumvent any measures implemented by Southwest Airlines aimed at preventing violations of the Use Agreement. You may not violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion header.

When you use the Southwest Airlines sites or Company information for an authorized purpose, you must include all proprietary notices without changing, hiding or deleting them.

You may not engage in any conduct that is, or that Southwest Airlines deems to be, in violation of this Use Agreement.

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https://www.checkmytrip.com/cmt/apf/...&SITE=NCMTNCMT
3. Licence restrictions

3.1 Except as expressly set out in this EULA or as permitted by any local law, you agree:
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(D) not to use any automated system or software to extract data from the Application, Documents or Services for commercial purposes (such as screen scraping);

https://www.delta.com/mytrips/findPnr.action
http://www.delta.com/ism/SeatMapDisplay.action
http://www.delta.com/shared/components/blank.jsp
Terms of Use:

https://www.finnair.com
Terms of Use:

https://www.flysas.com
Terms of Use:

https://www.iberia.com/web/retrievePNR.do
Terms of Use:

https://www.lot.com
Terms of Use:

https://www.lufthansa.com
Terms of Use:

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http://www.lufthansa.com/online/port...d=2016866&l=en

2. Proprietary rights
...You may not, either in whole or in part, copy, modify, distribute or use or reproduce in other form contents of the Lufthansa-website, or the underlying software code, without the prior written consent of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.

https://www.routehappy.com/
Terms of Use:

https://www.swiss.com
Terms of Use:

https://www.tripforyou.net/t4u/PTopAction.do
Terms of Use:

https://www.tripple.jp
Terms of Use:

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/app...n/default.aspx
Terms of Use:

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https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/legal.aspx This website is for the User's personal, noncommercial use only. User agrees not to modify, copy, alter, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from this website without United’s prior written permission. User agrees not to use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy this website or the content contained therein or for any other unauthorized purpose without United’s prior written permission. ... United reserves the right to investigate any illegal and/or unauthorized use of this website, including, but not limited to, unauthorized framing of this website or unauthorized use of any robot, spider or other automated device, and to take appropriate legal action, including, without limitation, civil, criminal and injunctive redress.

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http://www.gcmap.com/faq/using
Q: May I use the Great Circle Mapper's maps on my web page?
A: You may use maps generated by the Great Circle Mapper on non-commercial web pages (q.v. commericial use below) so long as you do not profit from them and you include the following credit on pages which include maps:
...
Q: May I use the Great Circle Mapper's maps for commercial sites or publications?
A: Please write to Karl L. Swartz regarding terms for commercial use of the maps.

http://www.iata.org/about/members/Pa...line-list.aspx
Terms of Use:

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http://www.iata.org/Pages/terms.aspx
2. Your Conduct

The content on this Site is for your personal use only within the organization or entity to which you are attached as applicable, and it is not intended for commercial exploitation unless expressly agreed in writing by IATA through a duly authorized representative. IATA authorizes you to download or reproduce selected materials at this Site only for your personal, non-commercial use, in the ordinary course of business provided that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original materials on any copies of the materials and that the title or database brand name and IATA name is stated as the source.

You may not otherwise modify, disassemble, create derivative works, distribute, reproduce, publicly display, perform, transmit, re-transmit, sell, rent, sublicense, or otherwise use any materials or content on this Site for commercial or non-commercial exploitation by yourself or the organization or entity to which you are attached or permit third parties to so do. Without limitation, unlimited or wholesale reproduction, copying of the content for commercial or non-commercial purposes and unwarranted modification of data and information within the content is not permitted, and any use of these materials on any other website or networked computer environment for any purpose without IATA’s prior written consent is prohibited.
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4. Intellectual Property Rights

...You must not modify, decompile, or reverse engineer any software IATA discloses to you via this Site, and you must not remove, overprint, or deface any notice of copyright, trademark, logo, legend, or other notice of ownership from any originals or copies of software or information from the website. "IATA Trademarks" means all names, marks, brands, URL names or addresses, logos, designs, trade dress and other designations IATA uses in connection with Products or Services. You are not permitted to incorporate any IATA Trademarks into any other trademarks, service marks, company names, Internet addresses, domain names, or any other similar designations. Any unauthorized use of any materials contained on this website may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.

http://www.itn.net/cgi/get
Terms of Use:

http://www.kenya-airways.com/kqbook.aspx
Terms of Use:

http://www.myairlines.ru
Terms of Use:

http://www.qantas.com.au/regions/do/dyn/checkmytrip
Terms of Use:

http://www.seatexpert.com/multiple_results.php
Terms of Use:

http://www.seatguru.com/ajax/findseatmap.php
Terms of Use:

http://www.seatmaestro.com/airlines-...eckmytrip.html
http://www.seatmaestro.com/themes/de...te_airline.php
Terms of Use:

http://www.seatplans.com/ajax/Airline
http://www.seatplans.com/ajax/airports-and-city
http://www.seatplans.com/find-and-compare/
Terms of Use:

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May 20, 2006, 1:54 pm

#871

KVS

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Last edited by KVS; May 22, 2006 at 5:54 pm

May 22, 2006, 6:26 pm

#872

KVS

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Posts: 12,949

Alert: Missing TCY Fares

Fares for the following carriers continue to be missing from the TCY-based methods:AC

UA

BA

LH

VS

LX

QF

(Possibly Others)

The recently-introduced Sabre: Fares/DotRes method of the KVS Tool continues to be a reliable source for all fares that are missing from TCY.

For example, compare:

[KVS Availability Tool 2.2.0/Platinum - Sabre: Fares/TCY/US-USD]

Code:

YTO  Toronto Metro ON CA = YTZ YYZ
LON  London Metro UK = LHR LGW STN LTN LCY
THU  01 Jun 2006

Carrier          From           To   Fare      Cur     Fare Basis
--------- ------ ---- --------- ---- --------- ---- -- ----------
US               YTO            LON     863    USD     M2CA
NW               YTO            LON     894    USD     B10
KL               YTO            LON     894    USD     B10
AA               YTO            LON    1039    USD     B2
CO               YTO            LON    1039    USD     HCE
BD               YTO            LON    1138    USD     B0LP
US               YTO            LON    1171    USD     B2CA
NW               YTO            LON    1202    USD     Y2
KL               YTO            LON    1202    USD     Y2
BD               YTO            LON    1396    USD     Y0LP
SN               YTO            LON    1396    USD     YOWSN
AF               YTO            LON    1417    USD     Y2
US               YTO            LON    1429    USD     Y
NW               YTO            LON    1460    USD     Y
KL               YTO            LON    1460    USD     Y

With:

[KVS Availability Tool 2.2.0/Platinum - Sabre: Fares/DotRes/US-USD]

Code:

YTO  Toronto Metro ON CA = YTZ YYZ
LON  London Metro UK = LHR LGW STN LTN LCY
THU  01 Jun 2006

Carrier          From           To   Fare      Cur     Fare Basis
--------- ------ ---- --------- ---- --------- ---- -- ----------
UA               YTO            LON     754    USD     MX3CE
UA               YTO            LON     799    USD     MW3CE
AC               YTO            LON     825    USD     U0LP
BA               YTO            LON     825    USD     BFFNA
VS               YTO            LON     825    USD     B2CB
US               YTO            LON     858    USD     M2CA
KL               YTO            LON     889    USD     B10
NW               YTO            LON     889    USD     B10
UA               YTO            LON     998    USD     B2CA
AA               YTO            LON    1034    USD     B2
CO               YTO            LON    1034    USD     HCE
AC               YTO            LON    1133    USD     M0LP
BD               YTO            LON    1133    USD     B0LP
BA               YTO            LON    1133    USD     W2CA3
VS               YTO            LON    1133    USD     W2CB
US               YTO            LON    1166    USD     B2CA
KL               YTO            LON    1197    USD     Y2
NW               YTO            LON    1197    USD     Y2
UA               YTO            LON    1338    USD     Y2
AC               YTO            LON    1391    USD     Y0LP
BD               YTO            LON    1391    USD     Y0LP
BA               YTO            LON    1391    USD     Y2CA
LX               YTO            LON    1391    USD     YOWCA
VS               YTO            LON    1391    USD     Y1CB
AF               YTO            LON    1412    USD     Y2
US               YTO            LON    1424    USD     Y
KL               YTO            LON    1455    USD     Y
NW               YTO            LON    1455    USD     Y
BA               YTO            LON    1622    USD     W1CA
VS               YTO            LON    1622    USD     W1CB
BA               YTO            LON    2394    USD     WCA
BA               YTO            LON    2394    USD     Y1CA
CO               YTO            LON    2554    USD     YCE
AF               YTO            LON    2606    USD     YOW
AZ               YTO            LON    2729    USD     YOW
AA               YTO            LON    2815    USD     Y
LH               YTO            LON    2896    USD     YOW
DL               YTO            LON    2934    USD     Y

Last edited by KVS; Jul 1, 2006 at 11:49 am

May 23, 2006, 10:01 am

#873

cabso1

Join Date: May 2006

Posts: 29

Will i be able to book seats using the basic membership?

May 23, 2006, 6:24 pm

#874

KVS

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cabso1

Will i be able to book seats using the basic membership?

This is actually an Availability Tool that provides information

...

May 23, 2006, 8:40 pm

#875

infy9001

Join Date: May 2004

Location: YYZ

Programs: CX-Silver, HH-Diamond, SPG-Gold

Posts: 376

Seat Maps function

Stupid question.. if I remember correctly, when I had the lite-version, and I right clicked on a flight result, I would get a pop-up with the ability to get the seat map for the flight (I could be mistaken as this was a while ago). Now I'm having trouble getting the seat map.

I'm using 2.10/Gold.
Search using Apollo: ITN/CWT
YYZ-HKG
Returns multiple results
Right click on a specific result | Seat map/Book Segment

The next menu gives me:
Apollo...
Sabre...
Galileo..
Worldspan...
Worldspan...
Worldspan...

I know the first two Worldspan options are only available to Plat. members. However, the other options bring me to booking flights.

How do I get the seat maps? I've done a search on this thread for "seat map" and went through all the results but none seemed to pertain to my situation.

Maybe my GUI is screwed up (more likely me tho)

What am I missing here

May 23, 2006, 8:51 pm

#876

infy9001

Join Date: May 2004

Location: YYZ

Programs: CX-Silver, HH-Diamond, SPG-Gold

Posts: 376

Disregard my post. I was able to get it to work via Gallileo by going to book the fare then cancelling, then bringing up the seat map. Guess that'll do, but I could have sworn there was a GUI click way to bring up the maps before

May 23, 2006, 9:10 pm

#877

KVS

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Seat Maps

Quote:

Originally Posted by infy9001

Pls see http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...74#post2804874

May 24, 2006, 9:19 am

#878

infy9001

Join Date: May 2004

Location: YYZ

Programs: CX-Silver, HH-Diamond, SPG-Gold

Posts: 376

Quote:

Originally Posted by KVS

Pls see http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...74#post2804874

OMG!

I did do this, read through multiple times, but it didn't work last night. I couldn't see the "select seat" selection.

I did this this morning, and it did work and I see the "select seat" selection.

Must have been too tired to see properly, sorry for the bad post.

May 28, 2006, 11:24 am

#879

KVS

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Posts: 12,949

KVS Availability Tool: FAQ, Part 1 has been updated with information on the Sabre: Fares/TCY & Sabre: Fares/DotRes methods: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...74#post2804874

Jun 5, 2006, 10:03 pm

#880

divilish

Join Date: May 2006

Posts: 350

Thank you KVS for a fine tool and a quick reply.

I just don't know if it can help me personally, I might have overlooked the answer on the FAQ........

I am looking for award travel. Either United Airlines or Star Alliance award seats.

I understand the tool and it seems to be the best one outside of web-based tools, but from my understanding it would not show award seats for united or for star alliance members(looking at air new zealand right now).

Did I miss something? Or does the program just not do that rigtht now? If it did I would not mind paying a price!

Jun 6, 2006, 10:57 am

#881

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Quote:

Originally Posted by divilish

I understand the tool and it seems to be the best one outside of web-based tools, but from my understanding it would not show award seats for united or for star alliance members(looking at air new zealand right now).

Award availability is currently shown for a few *A (and a number of other) airlines -- see KVS Tool FAQ, Part 2 under "Classes Displayed By Airline": http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...80#post2804880

The *A list used to be longer: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...26#post3916826

Jun 8, 2006, 7:11 am

#882

yuchung5

Join Date: Jul 2005

Location: TPE, MNL

Programs: AA lifetime GOLD, but still an AA Baby compare to people here. CX nobody. BR Silver.

Posts: 984

A quick question.
Can KVS tool display contract bulk fare?
I know the command in Sabre is FQORDNRT19JUNCB-AA
Thanks
yuchung5

Jun 8, 2006, 8:43 pm

#883

KVS

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Quote:

Originally Posted by yuchung5

Can KVS tool display contract bulk fare?

It can only display published fares (and certain "web/e-" fares). Contract and other confidential and negotiated fares are specific to a particular agency, so they can't be shown...

Jun 17, 2006, 10:50 am

#884

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Sabre: Fares/DotRes: MAN Issue

The Sabre: Fares/DotRes method cannot retrieve fares from/to MAN (Manchester) due to a bug in the DotRes engine.

Please use the Sabre/ZUJ method to retrieve such fares.

Last edited by KVS; Jun 10, 2007 at 7:45 pm

Jun 20, 2006, 7:03 am

#885

TWA Guy

Join Date: Aug 2002

Programs: UA 1K & 1MM/AA Gold & 1MM/HH Gold/Marriott Titanium

Posts: 2,920

Worldpan TravelAsp text seat plans for LH

What do the following seat codes mean in the Worldpan TravelAsp text seat plans for LH - B, U & D? I think I've decipehered R(eserved), E(xit row), S(aved for LH elites) and I(nfant). Thanks!