Originally Posted by
pdx1M
So has anyone found a workaround to make searching for upgrade space sanely doable? I have a trip to Europe to plan where I wanted to find a TATL flight with R>0. Trouble is that the start and finish cities are second tier so there will likely be connects at both sides which means that I can use a number of US hubs and a number of Europe hubs. If I understand this correctly, I have to search every possible hub pair, for every date I am willing to fly on, to insure that I am not seeing 0 simply because the domestic connection to the US hub is a R=0. That is not a quick or easy process unless someone knows some trick. Sheesh!
So if you search R for BOS-SIN, you have to remember all possible gateway routings:
ORD/SFO/LAX/SEA/EWR/IAH-NRT/HKG-SIN
and check R availability.
Not to mention you have to enter W,V,Q,M,B,Y to search for SWU fare.
SHARES may be OK for a regional carrier, but can't handle a global carrier business.