Originally Posted by
seanthepilot
Expert Flyer is good, but lack of loyalty bonus tones down my excitement. I've now used Expert Flyer for yeeeeears. It's good.
But EF is too expensive. I don't mean that $10 a month is terribly high. My feeling is that they should give their continuous clients a bit of a break. After 5+ years of continuous use, a loyal FT or a longterm prepaid rate would help the pinch.
If you sign up for a year of ExpertFlyer service you only pay for 10 months ($8.33/mo).
We've done good by them, and they've done good by us. If they're now in a better position than before, why not help the customers that stuck with them?
We do. Not only have our prices not increased once since our launch in 2005, even in the face of increased costs, but we have continually added new features to the service at that same price point. Some of those features, like Flight & Seat Alerts, come at a significant cost to us since each GDS query has a cost associated to it, however we feel it's good business to return value to our subscribers who invest in us.
Originally Posted by
welltravelled88
Can either KVS or ExpertFlyer, or something else, offer me the ability to actually have Amadeus more or less ? Like I type AN22SEPZRHDXB/ALX and I get the result ? There must be someone out there offering read-only Amadeus access, no ?
ExpertFlyer has direct access to multiple GDSs. It comes at a cost, but we believe it's worth it as it allows us to offer unique services and data. The search functions of ExpertFlyer use those same exact commands that you are referring to, however giving direct access to the GDS commands isn't something that we want to do, or that the GDSs would even allow us to do.