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Old Apr 14, 2023 | 12:19 pm
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Originally Posted by YYJMSP
My Search (Apr 26-May16)

it's still happening, now that that UA saver awards are back. it's returning a random combination of Apr 29, May 4, May 5, May 7 (which corresponds to availability on United's web site) on successive runs with no errors in the log section (i did see a 429 once against one of the days, but it hasn't happened again)

not a problem per se, but it makes the result set "unreliable" at least for me for this search. i'm double-checking it on the AC and UA sites, but that takes way more time than your wonderful tool...
Only had to refresh AC.com a couple times to replicate the same thing.

People grab, hold, and release space all the time. Airline RM systems adjust things all the time. Airline inventory systems fail to return results all the time.

I don't think there's actually an issue with cowtool here.

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