KVS Availability Tool

[qasr]

Originally Posted by Dromomaniac

This would be a huge boost. Is it that one saver economy seat must be available, though, or just any saver seat? Often IME, a flight will come up with Business upgrade availability, even though there may be no economy saver awards available, but there is a saver business or saver first award available.

I believe it should be possible if only one saver award seat (F, C or Y as applicable) needs to be available, but I might be wrong. (KVS?)

[Viking547]

KVS - this functionality (searching for awards) would be SUPER useful. Bravo !

[ozflier]

KVS,please do it.

[Platcomike]

Please do, the UA data would be extremely useful.

Thanks for all your hard work.

[someotherguy]

This is already possible using the beta of the new ual.com at http://www.united.com/page/article/1,,51885,00.html

Basically, you seach for standard awards in expert mode, which will bring up essentially all flights (they have to be Y0 etc. to have no standard awards), then mouse over flight details and it will show NC etc. as exactly that (no need to remember I=NC, O=XC).

There's a long thread on other new functionalities and disfunctionalities of the ual.com beta at New dot.bomb Beta test site "sort of" up and about [merged threads]

[KVS]

Originally Posted by Erasmus

This is huge! I'd likely be forced to find a Windows box to use on a regular basis and would probably dump my ExpertFlyer subscription as well.

Originally Posted by ryan182

YES YES YES!! When does 2.5 come out!?

Originally Posted by Dromomaniac

This would be a huge boost. Is it that one saver economy seat must be available, though, or just any saver seat? Often IME, a flight will come up with Business upgrade availability, even though there may be no economy saver awards available, but there is a saver business or saver first award available.

Can't wait for the new version; did I miss the timeframe?

Originally Posted by seadan

Very cool! If you're pulling the data from the UA website, I would suggest having a CoS to search drop-down here, in case, as others have pointed out, there is no saver economy but there is saver C or F available.

Originally Posted by qasr

I believe it should be possible if only one saver award seat (F, C or Y as applicable) needs to be available, but I might be wrong. (KVS?)

Originally Posted by SamZeb

KVS - this functionality (searching for awards) would be SUPER useful. Bravo !

Originally Posted by ozflier

KVS,please do it.

Originally Posted by Platcomike

Please do, the UA data would be extremely useful.

Thanks for all your hard work.

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

I have added a [Cabin Class] selection for the new [Apollo: Awards/UA] method. Therefore, at least 1 saver award seat must be available in the selected cabin class, for the flight to show-up.

[KVS]

What's New in Version 2.5.0:

• New [Apollo: Awards/UA] Method :
  • This new method provides access to availability in award and upgrade booking classes for UA:
    
    

    Carrier   Flight From Depart    To   Arrive    A/C  St   Availability
    --------- ------ ---- --------- ---- --------- ---- ---- --------------
    UA        839    JFK  17:55     LAX  21:17     757  0    R0 X1 O0 I3 N4
    UA        51     JFK  19:00     LAX  22:34     757  0    R0 X2 O2 I7 N3
    UA        33     JFK  20:45     LAX  00:19 +1  757  0    R1 X3 O4 I9 N2
    

  • Note: At least one saver award seat must be available in the selected cabin, for the flight to show-up.
  
  
  
• [Sabre: Fares/ZUJ] Method Enhancements:
  • A [Max] option has been added to request the maximum possible number of fares (100).
    
    
  • Additional fare information is now displayed in the main window:
    
    

    Carrier   From   To   Fare      Cur  Expiry    Min  Max  Fare Basis
    --------- ------ ---- --------- ---- --------- ---- ---- ----------
    LX        YYZ    LON      610   USD  29 Oct    Sun  12M  HLWUKCA
    BA        YYZ    LON      397   USD            Sun  12M  NLXNNNAA
    BD        YYZ    LON      397   USD            Sun   2M  T0MSLXFL
    

• Misc. Changes:
  
  • All external web links now open in a new browser window.
  • Fares via the [Sabre: Fares/DotRes] method are now available in the following choice of currencies: USD, CAD, EUR, and GBP.

What's New in Version 2.5.1:

• Resolved: An issue with the Apollo: Awards/UA method, when originating from an airport outside of US/CA.
• POS selections are now being saved between sessions.

What's New in Version 2.5.2:

• Resolved: Airline preference being ignored, when using the ITN-based methods.
• New keyboard shortcut added:
  <Ctrl> + <PgUp>/<PgDown>: Request availability for previous/next day

[sadiqhassan]

For me, the best change is that everything opens in a new browser window

[gleff]

This is wonderful, thank you!

[lmccaleb]

I LOVE the new UA Award Method.

Is there ANY way to search for awards between cities over a range of dates?

I would like to search for instance for (2) First Class award seats between SFO and HNL between June and Oct. They are hard to come by and doing it day by day is cumbersome.

Thanks again!

Lee

[KVS]

Originally Posted by lmccaleb

I LOVE the new UA Award Method.

Is there ANY way to search for awards between cities over a range of dates?

I would like to search for instance for (2) First Class award seats between SFO and HNL between June and Oct. They are hard to come by and doing it day by day is cumbersome.

Unfortunately, not at this time.

However, you can use the following keyboard shortcuts, when checking adjacent dates:

• <Alt+D>, <Arrow Down>, <Enter> (Check next day)
• <Alt+D>, <Arrow Up>, <Enter> (Check previous day)

[shinnene]

It seems to me that new feature of Awards/UA is not working for International awards.
For example, I checked availability of saver award from Tokyo to Seoul on October 23 in United.com, and there are available seats in economy class. So, I went to check same one in using KVS availablity tool, but it did not work and showed me that CRS Error: There are no flights that you meet your request.
If I use KVS Availability tool for domestic flights in USA, it worked well.

[sadiqhassan]

Are Worldspan seat maps down? I keep seeing:

Seat Map Data Error
Sorry a Seat Map is not available

[KVS]

Originally Posted by shinnene

For example, I checked availability of saver award from Tokyo to Seoul on October 23 in United.com, and there are available seats in economy class. So, I went to check same one in using KVS availablity tool, but it did not work and showed me that CRS Error: There are no flights that you meet your request.
If I use KVS Availability tool for domestic flights in USA, it worked well.

YGPM!

[KVS]

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