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Old Jul 1, 2010 | 9:13 am
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Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
The flight specific Flight Status search (for AA) and the city pair search pull from two different sources, hence the difference. The GDS (for flight specific AA searches) only has information going back to the previous day, which is now 6/30.
OK, thanks - as long as I can still get the historical info via the city-to-city search, I can work around it.

If this is true across all airlines, though, might it be worth redirecting individual searches (which is what I save in my Saved Queries) for older flights back to the other source? That way I'd see it as "FLIFO data added for flights on same day" rather than "Flight Status info lost for flights older than one day".
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