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Old Mar 1, 2012 | 9:32 am
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Originally Posted by Keter
Dear EF, could you please check if there are any problems with direct access to TK?

Generally, the information for TK is shown accurate, so no need for direct access, however, if direct access is forced, aircraft types is often '404' which reminds html error page. So do not know if can trust the results.
There are no problems with the direct access. Airline-GDS communications do not use anything as remotely modern as HTTP/HTML for communications, so "404" has no special meaning. For TK, direct access is used to be able to see availability beyond 330 days in the future.

As you can see from the direct GDS output, this is what TK is returning. It is probably something that they will fix, however the availability results look the same as the non-direct access method so there is no issue with availability accuracy.

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 01APR  SUN   JFK/EDT     IST/‡7                                
TK RESPONSE ** DIRECT CONNECT PARTICIPANT **                    
 7TK  12 C4 D3 J0 I0 R0 U7 O4 A0 Z0*JFKIST 1205A  445P   404 0  
         Y7 B7 M7 K7 H7                                         
 8TK   2 C4 D4 J0 I0 R0 U7 O2 A0 Z0*JFKIST  625P 1115A‡1 404 0  
         Y7 B7 M7 K7 H7                                         
 9VS  46 J4 C4 D4 I4 Z7 W7 S7 K7 Y7 JFKLHR  720P  740A‡1 744 0  
         B7                                                     
10TK1980 C4 D4 J4 I0 R0 Y7 B7 M7 K7*   IST 1125A  515P   333 0  
         H7 S7 E7 Q7 T7                                         
11VS  10 J4 C4 D4 I4 Z7 W7 S7 K7 Y7 JFKLHR 1020P 1030A‡1 346 0  
         B7                                                     
12TK1990 C4 D4 J4 I0 R0 Y7 B7 M7 K7*   IST  200P  750P   321 0  
         H7 S7 E2 Q0 T0                                         
13KL8441 J4 C4 D4 I4 Z7 Y7 B7 M7 U7 JFKBRU  735P  930A‡1 767 0  
         K7                                                     
14TK1938 C4 D4 J4 I0 R0 Y7 B7 M7 K7*   IST 1115A  335P   321 0  
         H7 S7 E7 Q7 T2                                         
15LH 401 F0 A0 J0 C0 D0 Z0 Y0 B0 M0 JFKFRA  355P  535A‡1 744 0
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