I understand some of the issues re. screen scraping but as someone pointed out time is money and kvstool does a reasonable job of simplifying (or rather organizing) cumbersome multiple searches. I used it for a bunch of award searches recently and I think I could replicated the functionality using the underlying data sources that KVS itself uses; however the convenience and (once you get used to it) the (artificial) similarity of the views across multiple sources is useful.
So after a 2 month trial, I signed up for an annual subscription. A sucker perhaps but whatever.
Anyways...a question. KVStool claims award availability for Hawaiian is only available in the mobile companion. Per the guide, the econcomy class booking code is T.
HA Hawaiian Airlines T Economy Award# P First Additional/HM "Flex" Award
P First Upgrade [Mobile Companion] # Partner redemptions only
Here's the output:
HA 45 SJO
07:50 OGG
11:15 763/0
03:25 Info
Seat Map
F7 J5 P3 C0 A0 Y7 W7 X7 Q7 V7 B2 S0 N0 M0 I0 H0 G0 K0 L0 Z0 O0
Another strange KVS quirk is that it sometimes converts San Jose CA (SJC) to SJO (San Juan Puerto Rico???) on output. However the flight number is a valid HA flight from San Jose. Ignoring this quirk, why is there no T availability?
AA.com shows at least one seat is available in Economy. (This is for Feb 25, 2015)
American Airlines
Alaska Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines
All Area Airports
San Jose
SJC - San Jose International
OAK - Oakland Metropolitan Oak Intl
SFO - San Francisco International
Kahului
OGG - Kahului Airport Kahului Maui
Tue Feb 24
Wed Feb 25
Thu Feb 26
Additional eligible airports for award travel may be included.
17.5K
HA 45
7:50 AM
SJC
11:15 AM
OGG
Hawaiian Airlines
Seat information not available Meal: Breakfast
Aircraft: 763 Booking Code: T
Total travel time: 5hr 25min Cabin: Economy
Flight Details