Originally Posted by
mymiles2go
Hello,
As a huge fan of KVS, I've been recently working on a complex award itinerary. In doing so, I find that I'm doing some tasks over and over again, so I figured I'd toss my requests in the ring for future consideration. I realize of course that some of these may be a bit like asking for the moon, but I figure it can't hurt to ask.
Also, you'll note that kinda build on each other:
Glad that you have been enjoying the Tool since 2006. As always, constructive suggestions are most welcome and I will address each of them below:
Originally Posted by
mymiles2go
2) Within Saved Itins - the ability to specify a specific flight - i.e. SQ232, as opposed to a city pair. The idea being I'm trying to watch for availability on a certain flight, instead of the whole route. Perhaps when you click to add to an itin, it just watches that flight, or does some sort of filter based on your selection.
This is not something that can be done at the Saved Itineraries level, because availability is requested by route (city pair). It would, therefore, be more suitable as an extension of the Filtering functionality, although, connecting flights handling may be problematic...
Furthermore, there is currently no way to 'attach' Filter settings to the Saved Itineraries.
Your suggestion will, certainly, be noted. However, in the meantime, using the existing Filtering functionality, in most cases, you should not be seeing more than a few flights in the results anyway...
Originally Posted by
mymiles2go
3) Within Saved Itins - Ability to create a full 'trip'. For now, I'm essentially adding a bunch of city pairs, that I execute individually. Of course, these are executing searches individually behind the scenes. But I'd LOVE to be able to press that little green button once and have it execute all 7 of my searches at once, and shows the results (using #2 above, showing just the flights I'm interested in).
4) Finally - the biggie - the ability to run KVS perhaps as a task item (or as a service), and have it check for availability on a schedule (say, every hour), and then alert me if something becomes available in the fare bucket I'm interested in (I currently use filters to make it easy to see). I would happily pay a bunch extra for this feature. Obviously there are probably some concerns here on multiple requests to service providers, etc - so some limits are reasonable (even once or twice a day would be awesome).
This is something that is actually already being considered. However, both of these requests have to do with batch functionality, which is currently not available in the KVS Tool for various technical, logistical and policy reasons.
In the meantime, Filters and keyboard shortcuts for checking adjacent dates are certainly the way-to-go.
Hope this helps and, once again, many thanks for your feedback.