Originally Posted by
3544quebec
If I do a
Flight availability search (not an award seach) eg SYD-EZE 27/4 +/- 3 days with QF listed in the airline filter and the
don't show interline connections box checked the result does not return
U availability.
If I uncheck the interline connections box then
U availability appears for the QF-operated flights SYD-EZE
If I add BA to the airline filter (even though no BA flights appear), the U availabilty for QF-operated flights is there but it also shows U availability for the QF-coded/LA-operated flight SYD-SCL.
Enquiring mind wants to know - although for no good reason
Same if I add BA to QF in the airline preference list for SYD-LAX it will show P and U availability
ExpertFlyer picks from many different ways to access airline data depending on which airline(s) and options you choose in your search. For example, the Don't Show Interline option requires us to use a different GDS then we normally do as it's not supported by our primary one (same for the force 1/2 connections options).
As for QF, specifying just QF as the airline will tell the system to directly access the QF host, thereby allowing you to see flights a full 355 days into the future. If you specify no airline or more then one, then we use the GDS which is only 330/331 days out. As a side effect of this, talking directly to QF only shows classes where the availability is >0 whereas the GDS availability shows classes that are 0.
Making these choices on the back end automatically to get the best possible data for a given request is part of the magic of ExpertFlyer