Originally Posted by
zozeppelin
I feel dirty even using this as a reference (
http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea....n-use-instead/) but a third party "well established blogger" says otherwise:
"So they decided it was too costly for them to support given its use, at least that’s their explanation."
Interesting blog post - I had missed that - thanks for posting!
Some interesting quotes from the blogger and the comments in the blog
For that reason I find Expertflyer, the pay service, to be indispensable. Expertflyer shows flight availability just like FlightStats did, plus it includes American Airlines and has ‘special classes’ for American that I cannot access anywhere else (like American’s “C” inventory which is upgrades for a paid ticket from economy to business class).
and
Steve said,
I’d go so far and put the blame on kvs. They have been scraping the information from flightstats for their flight availability tool and flightstats didn’t agree with this.
A simple user request on flightats own website does not create heavy costs for flightstats, but screenscraping without showing any ads was really bad on the pocket or flightstats.