Ticketing date
Originally Posted by
ExpertFlyer Voice
It's not an issue of technical difficulty, it's just not possible to ask a GDS for a list of fares without including a travel date, even if you also have the ticketing date. A fare archive search may be possible, put again it would require a travel date as well as a ticketing date. GDSs unfortunately were built to return specific, applicable information as opposed to as much data as possible.
I understand that we always need travel date which is OK. But adding a ticketing date as additional feature with default being "today/ now" would allow one
a) to access archive fares [ie fare rules for recent EWR-FRA deal if one did not copy those on time]
b) to see fares which are already loaded but not yet effective (sale restriction date). this is useful if you need to check whether an airline expects to increase/ decrease fares. Usually fares are loaded in advance.
RBD Chart 2
Originally Posted by
ExpertFlyer Voice
This may be possible, we'll add it to the list to research and prioritize.
WOW! Waiting for the expiration of my subscription to another source
Please move it from the list to reality ASAP.
Due to current alliance tendencies more and more fares allow interlining. I hope it is not only myself who will benefit from knowing RBD on a secondary airline.
For example, in recent EWR-FRA people were guessing whether or not it books into W on LH. Once the issue is implemented it will be a piece of cake to check.