Originally Posted by
sdultra
Well I signed up for this tool specifically because it supported CX and JL, the region most drastically hurt by the upcoming AAdvantage changes. I was able to find some good info for my outbound FS awards, but now trying to search for the return on JL, I keep getting the Velocity Limits error and nobody it seems has any real fix. Someone mentioned seeing a CAPTCHA request but I do not have this.
First error comes up as "You have exceeded the Velocity Limits of the Awards/BA-OneWorld engine
If you hit ok , then you get
Data Source Error RW-1
Does anyone know how to fix this?????????????
Originally Posted by
sdultra
<redacted by moderator> If the direct airline sites showed true OneWorld award availability, especially in the premium cabins, I would certainly use them. JAL for example will not let you search for 2 seats, but only 1. Tools get created for a reason.
So thanks for your input, but my question still stands.
KVS Tool simply screen scrapes information from various websites. It does not access anything that is not available for free through other means.
The Awards/BA-Oneworld engine simply logs on to BA.com and does an award search, parses the information and displays it. For at least the past year BA has introduced Captchas (possibly due to excessive automated use against their T&C's...) when doing many award searches in quick succession. But whenever a website changes how the information is displayed, or introduces different Captchas etc (possibly to stop this sort of automated screen scraping) until KVS Tool is updated to deal with it, certain functions may not work.
KVS Tool will display exactly what an award search on BA.com will show when using that option. Nothing more, nothing less.
The other KVS oneworld award searches use Qantas.com, Jal.com and CathayPacific.com.
You are paying for something that screen scrapes free information, that may automate login/searches and parse it in to a common format.