It seems that EF and KVS weren't so 'innocent' and pulling from GDS. Maybe we should all offer them a big thanks for screen scraping the united servers to no end?

I think GDS is very costly, and they won't be able to get them for what they charge, so screen scraping was really the only way to get all the info. United instead of killing the functions for everyone, should have setup a deal with KVS and EF to charge them for their usage of the site, via a special URL they can track, and charge per query, hit, etc as they agree upon. It would less cost than GDS providers, but provide full info.
Those 'screen scrapes' aren't free either, and I know this first hand, the screen scraping scripts can RAPE a server when they go out of control or aggressive on the indexing.