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Old Nov 12, 2011 | 9:55 am
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Originally Posted by alanjrobertson
Thanks for the suggestion, jasonvr - downloaded and installed it.

I did a screen capture of browsing the ANA site (around 4s search then 2s per day change):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/647010/ANA%20website.wmv (2.7MB)

and also did one of KVS Tool:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/647010/KVS%20Tool.wmv (4.7MB)

Hopefully this shows how speedy things are when looking at fares/timetables compared to the slowdown when looking at award inventory. The >30s times I got previously thankfully don't seem to be the norm but it remains 3-4x slower than the ANA website at around 15s or so/search today).
Thanks for uploading the screen captures, from which it can be seen that your actual timings for the *A Award Searches are:

  • Using a Regular Web Browser: 20 seconds (starting at 00:00, ending at 00:20)
  • Using the KVS Tool: 15 seconds (starting at 00:41, ending at 00:56)
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