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Old Nov 6, 2006 | 3:05 am
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eFfeM
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Netherlands
Programs: KLM Plat, Hertz Gold,Priority club, Lufthansa, Mariott
Posts: 150
Lost with KVS and award availability

Dear all,

Just started to give KVS a try for the following reason:
I wanted to see if there is an possibiltiy to book a business class award ticket next summer to to the Dutch Antilles.

However the results of KVS confuse me.
If e.g. I try ams-cur on july 6, 2007 I get (with Apollo: ITN as I am using the lite version):

[KVS Availability Tool 2.5.2/Lite - Apollo: ITN/US-TNT]

AMS Amsterdam-Schiphol NL [EHAM]
CUR Curacao Aeropuerto Hato AN
VR 06 jul 2007

KL 735 AMS 12:00 CUR 15:55 M11 0 J9 C4 Z4 S9 B9

From what I learned in this thread D is the code for business class award and W is for economy. Thus according to Apollo there should be no availability for that day.

However, if I go to the FB web site award booking tool it will happily mention availability for that day and allow me to reserve 4 seats.

Same thing if I go for different dates or for different islands (bon - bonaire or aua - aruba).
No D or W codes in KVS still according to the award selector plenty of availability.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks alot! FM

PS: if someone has better options to look into the system:
if you can provide me on any info on business class availability for ams to aua, bon or cur during july (and back about 3 weeks later), I would greatly appreciate this!
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