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Old Feb 10, 2008 | 4:33 pm
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MarkXS
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Originally Posted by malap
That doesn't show award availability. It uses the same ITN backend as http://availability.publicbackup.com/ which a FTer set up with slightly different formatting. Those are great for looking for revenue buckets, but tell you absolutely nothing about award availability - which was the OP's request.

Seatcounter (www.seatcounter.com) can show award availability for most Star Alliance airlines (follow the directions to enter the airline code twice, and look at the legend at the bottom of the results for which booking codes are awards.)

Agree with the KVS tool suggestion - I've bought into that at the nominal requested fee for the Platinum level, and find it well worth it. The only pain about that is it needs to be updated every couple of weeks, because KVS often needs to change the back-end to deal with changes from the airlines, and due to some old-school Microsoft code used to write the tool, it always needs a reboot (how 1999!) afterwards. It will show availability for all three alliances. You do have to sign up for ANA Japan and Qantas FF#s on their websites, in order to enter them in the KVS tool, for Star Alliance and for oneworld carriers respectively.

Note that the ANA website can be used directly to find *A awards.

For details on any of this, URLs, procedures etc. search for any of the hundreds of threads about them.
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