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Old Apr 28, 2022 | 8:51 am
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Originally Posted by Smiley90
Problem with the AA search is married segments. Searching the calendar by nonstop is great in theory, but doesn't always accurately reflect what's ACTUALLY available. And as soon as you search for 1stops you get BA "contamination".
True. I end up often filtering 'non-stop only' to DOH separately to narrow the search down. Then repeat again separately for DOH-MLE. Sometimes an agent can piece XXX-DOH-MLE together in a call when it isn't available online.

It was much easier before AA's search engine has seemed to become ultra-sensitive to multiple searches with small variations in parameters. It was still tedious, but orders of magnitude easier just to plod through the process. Now it's just downright painful & almost a non-starter.

It'll be great if EF ends up working for QR again. Biggest downside then is having to search week by week instead of a visually quick and easy month calendar view. (But hey - can't be too greedy I guess! :-) It'll be good just to have it work.)
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