Originally Posted by
JIMCHI
It finds the first instance of award availability over a 7 day period. Expert Flyer does the same thing over just a 3 day period, but doesn't show it in a 'nice little table". It just shows it in a linear fashion, one day at a time, but it does show availability over the 3 day period. For what you pay KVS you can't expect a highly sophisticated tool. Perhaps some other sites do this ???
Nice little table or a run-on sentence...doesn't really matter as long as the results are on a single screen. EF does return the results in a manner that makes sense.
And if memory serves me correctly, Expert Flyer shows availability over seven days, not three. You choose a date and select +/- three days. Maybe it's changed; I haven't used it in a very long time.
Originally Posted by Ducati
Is it unreasonable to assume that the tool should search seven days (each day in sequential order) and return those results in a nice little table?
A single day search can return as many as 100 different flight options. Combining the results across a 31-day period would result in "a nice little table" with
3000+ flights.
As noted previously, the
[Award Calendar] is a completely different function and is currently supported by some Engines (including
[Awards/AC-StarAlliance]).
Yes and a single day search can return as little as one flight. I would surmise that a single flight option is far more common than a result that had 100+ flights. Can't see why a paid tool couldn't limit the search results to something like ten per day for a seven-day period. That's only seventy. Not unreasonable at all.
Originally Posted by
JIMCHI
For what you pay KVS you can't expect a highly sophisticated tool. Perhaps some other sites do this ???
That may be so.
At what
price point (A) x
years on the market (B) x
average number of paying customers (C) would it be reasonable to expect a
moderately sophisticated tool? We know A and B. Even very conservative assumptions about C yield dollar figures that would pay for many, many hours of coding and product development.
^ It's not like KVS just came out.