Originally Posted by
adamak
Thanks! Looking forward to the feature.
Please show J/F amount in addition to Y. Would be nice if you can show partner's requirement. E.g., need 135K AA miles RT to SE Asia on CX F, vs 150K BA miles on the same flight. (I'm pretty sure this # is correct, but didn't check again). Although, like HAPPY said above, it can get complicated with different airline rules....
Originally Posted by
sbm12
This one is definitely harder and we've struggled with the logic on it quite a bit. The easy number to display is cost on "home" metal and trust that users will know that it might be different with partners. Otherwise it gets VERY complicated very quickly in terms of figuring out based on a city pair which metal operates on it and which partners are available and which rule set they might fall under. I'm not sure that we're in a position to tackle that logic issue at this point versus grabbing the low-hanging fruit we have right in front of us but, as I noted in my prior post, I also need to talk to the developers and see where we get.
I completely feel you on this one! I started putting together a spreadsheet and was planning on utilizing Pivot tables to manipulate the data but after I truly contemplated the complexity of dealing with partners, zone definitions, distance based vs zone based, award availability, peak season vs low season etc I felt like my head was about to explode and decided I need a beer instead haha
I think it definitely makes sense to nab the low hanging fruit as you put it but I think that the tool would be incomparable and an extremely valuable service if you could somehow eventually incorporate all of the variables I mentioned above. I recently spent a couple hours going through the award charts of all of SPG's airline partners to figure out who my best bet was for the particular flight I wanted to book. Pain in the but and some of the awards charts for the smaller foreign carriers were too hard to find so I ended up just skipping them.
I don't want to come off as being negative though, great start!