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Old Sep 8, 2012 | 10:28 am
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Originally Posted by camachinist
Has anyone who is/with a corporate/full-service travel agency with native GDS/CRS access confirmed that availability is extent/gone from that source as well? My recollection (prior to booking awards on the internet) is that a travel agent could make award bookings so they'd have to be able to see information and book into available inventory. Mine did this a number of times back in the 90's. Corrections/clarifications are appreciated.

I mention this because of the discussion in this thread and the travel tools forum about EF scraping UA data versus having CRS/GDS access.
My travel agent, a very large consolidator for UA, lost the ability to see R/ON (formerly O and X respectively on pmUA) and it was driving her nuts. I told her about EF and she subscribed. So the new UA doesn't even give this information to their best consolidators.
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