Originally Posted by
dsauch
+1 - did those who complain never wondered why they need to plug various credentials for award searches and other info requests?
KVS is not "data provider", its a browser tool that represents data you can get directly on your own in a way that some people prefer over regular browser way. You pay for convenience of data layout - not for some magic data stream officiated by each company where the data comes from.
I guess you guys didnt use UA award search which disappeared as well - you used your credentials, on your own time/cpu and UA still had a problem with it.
Given this is FT with huge volumes of posts dedicated to MS, airline mistakes, MR and BR, ways to dump fuel costs, etc - the outrage over KVS tool is comical.
+1
But KVS should stop marketing themselves as if they were the data provider. This is the cause of all these complaints here. The tool is just a website scraper. It is providing a huge convenience to its users, as opposed to going to individual websites to get the info. Charging a subscription fee is justified because of the continuous updates necessary to keep pace with the changes of the various data source websites. And I have no complaints about this.