If it's legitimate, why all the secrecy? Even KVS hasn't made one peep about the legality of this or such after it was brought up in this thread, and they've responded after that to other points. Makes me think KVS suspects this method is not at all on the up-and-up.

I'm now wondering if flightstats.com took down their availability service simply because KVS was using it for free to gather their information, and in turn charge customers for the KVS interface. Nothing wrong in my mind if they did that, unless flightstats.com asked them to stop and they refused. Anyways, I have no idea if there was any sort of an arrangement or not between KVS and flightstats.com so don't want to make any assumptions here, but with the current secrecy, it does make one wonder.


Yes indeed. Just one more bit that adds to making KVS's action look very suspicious. I'm not a KVS customer, nor plan to be, nor have anything against them making money off of designing software to gather free information. But it looks to me like their credibility is taking a huge hit here by their actions and secrecy.