<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MeLike2Travel:
By the way bedelman, I think I recall you writing in a thread that you were thinking about adding additional features to your tool. Namely, I think you mentioned writing a code so that the program automatically pinged Galileo at set intervals to check for specific inventory on a given flight (ie check for 2 Z inventory on the hard to get AA flight LAX-LHR), and then send an email to the person letting them know the inventory opened up.
I wanted to say that I would greatly appreciate this ability, and will support the development if possible/needed. Are others interested in this capability? And how easy do you think this capability would be to add to your site, bedelman?
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I have been thinking about adding such a capability. I have two basic concerns:
1) That it would take a long time to write this program, and I'm busy. I appreciate "support" but would not be comfortable accepting money for this project given my sense of the FT community plus the fact that we're using data posted to the web by aeroplan. (To be sure, I think I'd be within my rights to accept money; I just don't care to.) So it's really a question of whether I can spare the time, or whether someone else has the skills & inclination.
2) As mentioned in another thread (by anothre FT'er!), I'm concerned that writing this script could hasten the demise of the feature we're using at Aeroplan to get the data at issue. Especially with the etour (Japanese) site inaccessible, it's particularly important to avoid getting aeroplan's Galileo interface shut down. But the large load that could be generated by this tool (many tools checking the site many times per day) makes me worry the tool would have precisely the reverse effect.