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Sep 9, 2013, 9:04 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by elva

Surprisingly ITA somehow recognizes ø as a valid input if you enter for example "DEN,[space]ORD" in routing code (which is very different from "DEN,ORD"). However it just drops the comma. My interpretation would be "transfer in DEN (optional) then transfer in ORD".

BTW, can anyone explain why don't I get options with 2 stops when I enter "DEN? ORD" and why do I get options with 3 stops when I enter "DEN ORD"?

For example from NYC to SFO.

We choose the fastest routes that obey the route restriction.

For "DEN? ORD", the NYC-DEN-ORD-SFO options are so slow that we can find hundreds of NYC-ORD-SFO options and never get around to constructing any NYC-DEN-ORD-SFO ones.

For "DEN ORD" we return some "direct" flights EWR-DEN on US that happen to have a stop in CLT. If you want nonstops you have to request them explicitly by something like "N DEN N ORD N"

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