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Old Jan 7, 2022, 12:33 am
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  • More direct links to partner airline "manage booking" pages
  • For points bookings, show how many points were used
  • Sometimes when you have UN segments, it doesn't show the entire PNR
  • Can seat # be a clickable link to carrier manage booking/seat?
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 12:10 pm
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Originally Posted by YXUFlyboy
Does a flight change sometimes switch a segment from HK to TK? I see this on trips where they’ve changed the times - I don’t actually care except all my options are now greyed out. What’s the right term to use with AC Res?
Any change in Amadeus that is a schedule change will push the segments to TK status. This in itself is fine.

The annoying thing is AC currently has not implemented a button to present you the changes and let you accept them (and move status back to HK). I suspect this is on their list. I suspect they also want to be able to allow the website to help you re-book flights with schedule changes that meet certain thresholds without having to call in. Amadeus web services make it much easier to implement these things, but AC still has to do the integration work.
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 1:10 pm
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Originally Posted by canadiancow
Not open source because while it using an Amadeus API, it's not a public API. Even the public ones that I found aren't really public, they're just free. You still need an account.
Thankfully it's not very difficult to get an Amadeus API key - I have one that I'm using for a flight search program that will be FLOSS when it's ready and signup to get a key was super easy.
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 1:35 pm
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Originally Posted by canadiancow
Not open source because while it using an Amadeus API, it's not a public API. Even the public ones that I found aren't really public, they're just free. You still need an account.
I wouldn't want to be responsible for pushing you over the free key limit.

Originally Posted by ecc
Thankfully it's not very difficult to get an Amadeus API key - I have one that I'm using for a flight search program that will be FLOSS when it's ready and signup to get a key was super easy.
​​​​​​​I promise not to ask dumb questions. Or not more than 10 minutes worth. Throw it over the wall
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 1:56 pm
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Originally Posted by RangerNS
I wouldn't want to be responsible for pushing you over the free key limit.
LOL. If the entire forum starts doing this this may actually become an issue

II​​​​​I promise not to ask dumb questions. Or not more than 10 minutes worth. Throw it over the wall
When it's in a reasonable state, I will It started out as a simple script to do searches, and now it's at the point that I'm implementing database models so that I don't repeat pagination on results and can also do comparisons on itinerary options, but I basically had to gut all the parsing to work with a proper data model instead of futzing with XML results in ram.
If you have further questions (and imo there are no dumb ones, ask away) feel free to PM me, as I don't want to derail the thread.
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 2:53 pm
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This is a great idea, thanks for making this cow!

I don't know if anyone else is having this issue but when I click on the link in chrome I get "An error occurred. Check your input and try again".
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 2:55 pm
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Originally Posted by marke190
This is a great idea, thanks for making this cow!

I don't know if anyone else is having this issue but when I click on the link in chrome I get "An error occurred. Check your input and try again".
You need to put in your own booking reference and last name
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 5:59 pm
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Originally Posted by canadiancow
You need to put in your own booking reference and last name
Yes! Thanks for doing this cow!

I put my next flight booking into the link where you said to put it but it tells me I am missing an authentication token.
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 6:06 pm
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Originally Posted by canadiancow
You need to put in your own booking reference and last name
Much better! I should really get some more sleep
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 6:12 pm
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Originally Posted by codfather
Yes! Thanks for doing this cow!

I put my next flight booking into the link where you said to put it but it tells me I am missing an authentication token.
Update:

I should have read through the thread again...

That form is handy for sure!! Thanks to both of you guys for doing this.
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Old Feb 2, 2020 | 9:52 pm
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I made some improvements based on what I had planned to do anyway (a simple form for submitting the two values), and based on some feedback here ("What the heck does RBD mean?").

It will now tell you what your segment status codes mean. So far, I've only seen HK, TK, and HL on my bookings though, so it's harder to test the rest.
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Old Feb 3, 2020 | 5:39 am
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This is a great tool, especially with all the schedule changes that seem to be happening lately. I booked an aeroplan flight for my father out west so this will help me keep an eye out for him. Thanks canadiancow .
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Old Feb 3, 2020 | 8:45 am
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Thanks for putting this together! I'm getting an error, but I suspect it's related to what I posted over in the complaints thread...
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Old Feb 3, 2020 | 8:54 am
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We got a couple of itineraries that give an error. But the issue must be with AC. Part already flown had to be reissued by another airline, and on the Air Canada site, the remainder of these itineraries now shows with the other airline ticket number... On the saudia site using the other airline ticket number, it shows the legs changed and flown only but not the return. Which it does show with the original 014 number.
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Old Feb 3, 2020 | 9:27 am
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Yeah. All timeout errors for me right now.
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Old Feb 3, 2020 | 9:30 am
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Thanks for creating the app, and thanks for letting us know that Amadeus has an API. It turns out Amadeus does much more than airline ticketing and reservation. I can think of a few very helpful apps that are quick to implement.
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