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Old May 24, 2022 | 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by OWBlueMoon
Hi, incredible tool, trying to plan a trip with flexible dates and AC/Aeroplan would be almost unuseable without something like this. I am seeing what seems like phantom inventory on the search tool (or perhaps something I'm doing wrong) -- here is an example result I got:

Route Time Duration Flight Cabin Aircraft Seats
LHR-GVA 2022-07-25 19:10-22:00 1:50 LX 357 J 223 5
GVA-JFK 2022-07-26 11:45-14:25 8:40 LX 22 J 333 5
J Low 70,000 J Flex 82,000 $434.30

But when I click the link (https://www.aircanada.com/aeroplan/r...=0&INF=0&INS=0), I can't find LX flights at all let alone the itinerary listed here. Is there something going on the AC site side that is causing results to be hidden or filtered in a way that is diff from what the tool is showing?
Huh. My only guess is:
We're including flights to LaGuardia, Newark Liberty Int. in the search results for your trip to New York because we don't offer direct service to John F. Kennedy Int. (JFK). Please take note of the airport you select.
If you search cowtool for LHR-NYC, it also doesn't show LHR-GVA-JFK. It seems like AC is ignoring the "JFK" and replacing it with "NYC" when you use their site, which then suppresses the actual result you care about.

So I don't have a solution for you, other than "call to book".

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On another matter, while I haven't had much time lately to continue working on alerts, a few just triggered for me.

One Latitude SFO-YYZ round-trip that I paid 21,700 plus a priority reward was able to be rebooked for 21,300, and another that dropped from 22,600 to 22,250.

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