Originally Posted by
Antipode
If United just wants to block access to upgrade inventory like R, why not just block those and still allow the revenue fare classes to be shown? Blocking upgrade inventory is shady, but blocking access to revenue fare classes is only going to hurt the customer trying to do legitimate things like book tickets or same day changes.
Maybe because the issue is screen scraping impacting the services and servers in negative ways like was hinted at.....because some sources were doing them in bad ways, or with bad code, or very overly aggressive in their tactics...
Yep, I am stuck on this issue, I think there is more to it than people think. I've seen what screen scraping continually can do to a services. I've been hit by amazon EC scrape scans so intensive they are like a DDOS...and it wasn't even intentional, it was looping code.