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Old May 27, 2011 | 12:41 pm
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Originally Posted by Illini_Fan
I thought I understood the Awards/Upgrades display correctly. If the Availability shows a + in the class of service I want, then there is availability for at least the number of seats I selected.
That is correct.

Originally Posted by Illini_Fan
I called AA today and they were not seeing the same. The agent said she saw the first class, but did not see business class availability.

I was hoping to paste the screen shot, but seem to be having issue with that.

The specifics are:
DFW-GVA on March 16, 2012
Airline is prefilled to *O Oneworld
Seats = 2

First flight pair:
BA 192 DFW 17:50 LHR 07:30+1 744 FS+ CS+ YS+
-> BA 726 LHR 09:40 +1 GVA 12:20 + 1 319

Why couldn't the AA agent see the business availability?
As mentioned in the KVS Tool User Guide (http://Help.KVSTool.com/), the [Awards/OneWorld] Method shows Availability per trip and may include mixed-cabin itineraries.

Therefore, for premium cabins, you either need to check each segment separately or use the new [Awards/BA-OneWorld] Method, which shows Award Availability per flight:

[KVS Availability Tool 6.1.6/Diamond - Amadeus: Awards/BA-OneWorld]
Code:
DFW  Dallas Metro / Dallas/Fort Worth TX US = DFW DAL [KDFW]
GVA  Geneva Geneve-Cointrin CH [LSGG]
FRI  16 Mar 2012 | 1 Seat

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive         St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  ------------
BA         192     DFW   17:50     LHR   07:30 +1           FS+  YS+
 -> BA     726     LHR   08:30 +1  GVA   11:10 +1           CS4  YS+
BA         192     DFW   17:50     LHR   07:30 +1           FS+  YS+
 -> BA     740     LHR   09:40 +1  GVA   12:20 +1           CS+  YS+
BA         192     DFW   17:50     LHR   07:30 +1           FS+  YS+
 -> BA     2744    LGW   10:35 +1  GVA   13:10 +1           CS+  YS+
BA         192     DFW   17:50     LHR   07:30 +1           FS+  YS+
 -> BA     728     LHR   10:50 +1  GVA   13:30 +1           CS+  YS+
BA         192     DFW   17:50     LHR   07:30 +1           FS+  YS+
 -> BA     730     LHR   11:45 +1  GVA   14:30 +1           CS8  YS+
BA         192     DFW   17:50     LHR   07:30 +1           FS+  YS+
 -> BA     732     LHR   13:20 +1  GVA   16:00 +1           CS+  YS+
BA         192     DFW   17:50     LHR   07:30 +1           FS+  YS+
 -> BA     2740    LGW   14:55 +1  GVA   17:25 +1           CS+  YS+
BA         192     DFW   17:50     LHR   07:30 +1           FS+  YS+
 -> BA     734     LHR   15:05 +1  GVA   17:45 +1           CS+  YS+

Originally Posted by Illini_Fan
Also, why doesn't the tool return the MAD routing? Every record that was returned was via LHR. Even though there wasn't availability on the DFW-MAD leg, I would have expected to see that set of flights.
The automatic flight construction for the the [Awards/OneWorld] Method is limited to 1 connection/2 flight segments.
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