Originally Posted by
fuyao
Has anyone ever contacted Sabre (getthere) or a big data provider yourself? Cause then you would now how much 1 request (pull fare rules, pull base fare names, ...) really costs and there would be NO WAY of getting that data through kvs with such a low yearly fee!
Other tools manage it just fine for a monthly price in the same ballpark.
KVS is pulling the fares from somewhere that is paying for Sabre, someone is subsidising your use of KVS, most likely unknowingly.
at some point its possible that there is no way of getting the fare data anymore and then we would have to accept it.
Or you could subscribe to alternative systems that get the data legitimately and charge a similar figure, and doesn't make a profit off reselling what others are giving for free.
It doesn't cost a lot to get flight availability, because flightstats were happy providing it for the limited income of showing a few adverts. Another tool on this forum gets you prices, seating charts, etc. etc from GDS for a similar price to KVS. KVS rather pocket your money themselves while conning many people into believing they're paying for legitimate sources of data (not ones where you have to sign up and break terms of use of sites)