Originally Posted by
psbaj
1. I can't confirm that but as far as I know, you'll have different prices depending on the country you issued your tickets because the base fares change from country to country, not availability.
2. Yes, ITA search based on the origin. If you want it to search as a US based agent, you need to fill a US city (I usually fill NYC) at the last option of the form: Sales city.
3. There is a paid tool you can do that, it's called ExpertFlyer.
4. I don't think this is a problem, as I said in aswer number one. I think you have a phantom availability problem. It happens a lot in ITA Matrix.
5. If even Y fare can't price it out, it could be it doesn't fill all the base fare rules. Have you checked it?
6. I already saw phantom fares for weeks, not months.
7. When you have complex itineraries, it is very common that they would only work on a few OTAs, or even none of them.
I'm not an expert, just been using the tools for a while.. Other members, please correct me if I said something wrong.
Thanks for the reply, and I will PM you for more detailed discussion.
1. I have tried inputting different sales cities. the following cities all generated the same price on ITA: SEL, TYO, LON, SFO, MEX, FRA. SCL was the only city I tried which does not give me the tickets.
3. I did not know ExpertFlyer has that function! I thought those C3, N8 etc listed are always for US only.
4. Availability is wide open on ITA and GF for months to no end, maybe it is just that the fare was never wiped from the system when it expired?
5. I have read all published fares between SEL and SCL, as well as SCL and TYO, namely from the lowest published X fare all the way up to Y, including V, N, M.
6. Thought ITA automatically checks if it is a phantom fare once a few hours or so (like all those EF that lingers for a while after the fare is gone), but I have never tried to verify this assumption.
7. But even TA's cannot do it, that is where my questions kick in. Also, now when I use ITA with scripts, even a simple LON-NYC rt would error out on PL.