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Old Sep 9, 2012 | 9:38 am
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Originally Posted by warreng24
It looks like KVS is still going to be showing reward and upgrade availability, albeit in a Boolean format.

Odd that EF seems to be taking a divergent path on this...
That's because KVS is screen-scraping their information. The tool can still screen-scrape to see if the UA site will let someone upgrade (in which case, an upgrade is available, and KVS can say there is upgrade space). EF, on the other hand, pays for their data through official sources (GDSes), which apparently United is completely blacking inventory out from, so EF has no way of knowing anything about upgrade space.
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