Expert Help Needed...
Dec 29, 2008 | 10:43 am
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: YUL
Programs: Super Elite 100K
Posts: 908
Expert Help Needed...
Ladies and Gents, I'd like to know if anyone can shine a light on something for me. I'm planning a trip to LHR from YUL, Jan 14, return Jan 19. I looked up the flights on expertflyer, and both the 864 outbound and the 865 inbound are "0" across the board, yet the flights are pretty wide open, and the prices are low, and available in every class. Any ideas what the "0" 's indicate?
Dec 29, 2008 | 1:25 pm
#3
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: YUL
Programs: Super Elite 100K
Posts: 908
Curious
Just went back to re-check, and lo and behold, the flights have now moved to mostly "9"s...expertflyer playing games with my feeble mind.
Sorry for the wasted bandwidth.
Mods, feel free to expunge the thread!
Sorry for the wasted bandwidth.
Mods, feel free to expunge the thread!
Dec 29, 2008 | 2:22 pm
#5
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: Canada
Programs: AC SE 2MM, HH Dd, Bonvoy G; IC S; AA; DL
Posts: 14,496
Actually ExpertFlyer has had issues with Air Canada this past two weeks. I wrote them about it and they say they are working on it. Still some issues this AM but you can get them to display properly by several workarounds.
Dec 30, 2008 | 11:06 am
#6
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: YUL
Programs: Super Elite 100K
Posts: 908
Still not quite right
I changed dates a little, one day earlier/later/etc... and can still find flights that are all "0"'s... I mention it merely so that if anyone were condsidering buying a premium service, they may want to know that expertflyer is buggy from time to time.
Dec 30, 2008 | 8:05 pm
#7
Company Representative - ExpertFlyer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,928
As was mentioned to BlondeBomber from our support department, the issue is that we're getting back the code "A" for those classes which we're showing as 0, which just means "Available" without a specific number of seats. We'll be making an update soon which will display this, and other letter codes (like waitlist status) as well as the numerical values in these situations.
So this update should be posted in 2 weeks or less.
-EFV
Dec 31, 2008 | 6:03 am
#8
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: Canada
Programs: AC SE 2MM, HH Dd, Bonvoy G; IC S; AA; DL
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The workaround usually involves adding another onward city, e.g. BOG-YYZ does not display properly the JYI seats -- all = 0 but if you do BOG-YYC with YYZ as connecting city then you will see BOG-YYZ on some of the city pairs displaying J0 I0 Y0=0 and others with J8 I5 Y8 etc the ones with non zeroed numbers are correct (as confirmed by my upgrades a couple of days ago.
Dec 31, 2008 | 7:20 am
#9
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: YUL
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Posts: 908
Thanks
As was mentioned to BlondeBomber from our support department, the issue is that we're getting back the code "A" for those classes which we're showing as 0, which just means "Available" without a specific number of seats. We'll be making an update soon which will display this, and other letter codes (like waitlist status) as well as the numerical values in these situations.
So this update should be posted in 2 weeks or less.
-EFV
So this update should be posted in 2 weeks or less.
-EFV