Originally Posted by
paulwuk
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.
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)
Technically KVS isn't pulling anything (besides routing rules and a couple other obscure methods). You are pulling it directly to your computer, so depending on your perspective you are the guilty party.
Now that said, it isn't as simple as getting a legitimate license and access. It would then need to be hosted which I am guessing KVS has nowhere near the server capacity to support considering the routing rules search bombs out 90% of the time and that does route to KVS servers.