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Old Aug 9, 2023 | 5:08 pm
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fckrabi
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Thank you canadian/cowtool for your amazing free tool ! Regarding the costs, I feel like the current model where you pay what you want when you want is the best. I think most of the "averages Joes" like me only travel using aeroplan points once a year or so, so I will be using the tool for some weeks and then stop using it completely. So a paid membership yearly/monthly would be not interesting for most of us, whereas a donation after booking my trip and feeling happy about the amazing trip I just booked seems natural. If it's become paid, I rather it be a $ rate per credit, so that the people who don't abuse the system are not treated as the same as those who abuse the tool and increases the cost.

But why don't you just you remove the stopover option ? I mean, it's cute and working fine, but for example if I search AAA-BBB and BBB-CCC separately for a complete month it will cost with me in total about 24 credits and I can figure out the stopover duration by myself and chose the one I like the most. But if I search AAA-CCC with a stopover in BBB in a spawn of 3 weeks and for only 3 fixed duration, it costs 60 credits. So it costs more than double than a normal search, and it don't return the same results as a less cheap search. So you will be saving a lot of costs be removing the stopover option I think, and to be honest, it's not a game changing one since anyone who understands how miles and segment works can put together the itinerary

Also, there was some discussion about a connection duration filter, is that still on the go or it was abandoned ?

Thanks again for your great tool !
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