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Dec 28, 2012 | 5:29 pm

#23

whimike

Join Date: Nov 2011

Location: West Coast, USA

Programs: Skywards Platinum

Posts: 3,747

Quote:

Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice

The problem looks to be that you were searching each segment separately when you should have been searching for them together. EK uses married segment logic for awards so you need to search for the entire trip. When you do you'll see that the results are correct:

Results from ExpertFlyer.com

Code:

Awards & Upgrades Search
Departing JFK on 02/15/13 10:00 PM for MLE
Flying EK   on booking class A O       
Connecting at DXB 


                                                                     Frequency                                                    
Flight        Stops  Depart             Arrive             Aircraft  Reliability     Class Description                      Code  Seats
1 Connection
EK 202        0      JFK                DXB                388       Daily           First - Flex Award                     A     0
                     02/15/13 11:00 PM  02/16/13 8:30 PM             82% / 19m       Business - Flex Award                  O     7

EK 652        0      DXB                MLE                772       Su,M,Th,F       First - Flex Award                     A     0
                     02/17/13 9:35 AM   02/17/13 2:50 PM             69% / 23m       Business - Flex Award                  O     4

I wanted to wait until I get back to my computer as I didn't recall these flights, even with married segment logic, not having A bucket. I just did an award search on EF with JFK and origin and MLE and destination, and this is what I get:

1 Connections

EK 202 0 JFK
02/15/13
11:00 PM DXB
02/16/13
8:30 PM 388
Daily
80% / 26m
First - Flex Award A 4
Business - Flex Award O 0
Economy - Flex Award W 9
Economy - Partner Award X 9

EK 658 0 DXB
02/17/13
3:15 AM MLE
02/17/13
8:20 AM 77W
Su,Th,F
48% / 15m
Business - Flex Award O 0
Economy - Flex Award W 9
Economy - Partner Award X 9

Am I using EF incorrectly? I can't bring up the results you are bringing up.

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