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Old Dec 12, 2018 | 8:41 am
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Originally Posted by flywithmiles70
[MENTION=47216]ExpertFlyer Voice[/MENTION] I'm curious how your service works with regard to showing O availability in this case? ExpertFlyer's interface was showing O5 for AF 995 on Jan 2. As I said before when I called AF after seeing this availability in your tool they said they had no O availability. You replied here and said that Delta was showing O availability. Based upon the information that your site returns, how would a user know that the availability showing for O availability was actually from another airline (i.e. in this case Delta) and not from the airline that the user is checking (i.e. in this case Air France)? Ultimately, I used the KVS tool to see the Delta O availability but could not figure out how/where I could have realized this using the ExpertFlyer tool.
It's not "from another airline" AF is publishing O5 for that flight into the global reservation systems and that's what EF, DL, etc see.
AF doesn't use constrained award inventory anymore from their flights when booking via FlyingBlue. They use variable award pricing now that changes with the money price of the flight.
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