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Old Sep 8, 2012 | 12:55 am
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Originally Posted by jweege
I am, like all the others, disappointed with this decision. United always had an advantage over others in the way that information was displayed. Transparency is always a good thing, and if displaying the fare classes is causing too many problems, why not explain how to use them somewhere instead? I would like to propose a couple of ideas:

1. Have a basic disclosure explaining how to use Expert Mode before a user can enable it. It would have to explain such things like how even if a fare is available, certain O&Ds don't book into it. It could also explain how CPUs don't cycle with R/RN inventory.

2. Maybe allow an expert mode to show just the award/upgrade inventories. This would at least help the MP members to simply see if space is available without a full-on dummy search.

3. Just fix the problems instead of taking away transparency. Its a stretch, but why not have CPUs just trace to a completely different bucket intsead of R/RN?? That will probably rid a lot of phone lines of questions about "Why is my CPU not cleared if there is R/RN??"

Just my two cents :-D
All this assumes that stated reason = actual reason.
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