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Jul 28, 2011 | 9:07 am

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Jasper2009

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Great job! ^

The hickups I´ve found so far:

1) origin region and destination region are sometimes the wrong way around (enter: LHR-SFO, table displays NA-Europe); not that it really makes a big difference

2) the chart displays numbers for bmi - First Class - Own; obviously BD doesn´t operate a First Class cabin, so you could probably just eliminate that column

3) BA is slightly confusing: Currently only awards on BA metal seem to be loaded which leads to some ridiculous figures like 140k/280k/420k miles for LAX-SYD. I think displaying the correct numbers for OW FFPs is more difficult than *A FFPs. Maybe you could implement the following categories for OW FFPs:

own metal
one partner airline only
(unlimited partner airlines)

4) Regarding the round-trip vs. one-way issue:

if possible I´d use the one-way figures if the FFP allows members to book awards at 50% of the return cost (e.g. BD, UA) and return figures for all other airlines (e.g. US)
Not sure whether it would be too much trouble, but this would lead to one-way figures for LH/LX/OS own metal awards and return figures for *A awards (once M&M has been loaded, of course)
It may also make sense to point out this info on the first page...

Thanks a lot for your work!

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