Price and schedule enhancement
Jul 25, 2008, 2:24 am
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Price and schedule enhancement
On AA.com the search by price and schedule option has now been "enhanced". One is now able to see the cheapest prices on three days either side of the chosen return date (previously only available for the chosen departure date). An excellent improvement and incredibly useful. Now if they would only make this thing fast...
Last edited by Ajohn; Jul 25, 2008 at 3:33 am Reason: Actually figured out the darn enhancement!
Jul 25, 2008, 6:10 am
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On AA.com the search by price and schedule option has now been "enhanced". One is now able to see the cheapest prices on three days either side of the chosen return date (previously only available for the chosen departure date). An excellent improvement and incredibly useful. Now if they would only make this thing fast...
Jul 25, 2008, 7:10 am
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Nothing pleases the chronic nitpickers on the AA board who all seem to be expert IT programmers
Lets deal with reality: the aa.com interface is unwieldly at best, but it costs money ( perhaps lots and lots) to bring it up to anything approaching top of the line.
Is/should this be a priority for any entity cutting routes and laying off staff?.
Does anyone remember the long thread telling members to be sure to log out of their aa accounts at the ACs? Not to mention the attendant complaints.
So aa.com fixes that... and sure enough we get complaints.
mike
Lets deal with reality: the aa.com interface is unwieldly at best, but it costs money ( perhaps lots and lots) to bring it up to anything approaching top of the line.
Is/should this be a priority for any entity cutting routes and laying off staff?.
Does anyone remember the long thread telling members to be sure to log out of their aa accounts at the ACs? Not to mention the attendant complaints.
So aa.com fixes that... and sure enough we get complaints.
mike
Jul 25, 2008, 7:32 am
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Nothing pleases the chronic nitpickers on the AA board who all seem to be expert IT programmers
Lets deal with reality: the aa.com interface is unwieldly at best, but it costs money ( perhaps lots and lots) to bring it up to anything approaching top of the line.
Is/should this be a priority for any entity cutting routes and laying off staff?.
Does anyone remember the long thread telling members to be sure to log out of their aa accounts at the ACs? Not to mention the attendant complaints.
So aa.com fixes that... and sure enough we get complaints.
mike
Lets deal with reality: the aa.com interface is unwieldly at best, but it costs money ( perhaps lots and lots) to bring it up to anything approaching top of the line.
Is/should this be a priority for any entity cutting routes and laying off staff?.
Does anyone remember the long thread telling members to be sure to log out of their aa accounts at the ACs? Not to mention the attendant complaints.
So aa.com fixes that... and sure enough we get complaints.
mike
Pot, kettle, black.
Jul 25, 2008, 7:41 am
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Jul 25, 2008, 7:47 am
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This smells like a bug to me.
Any good software dsigner/architet woould have specified a more elegant solution.
Any good software dsigner/architet woould have specified a more elegant solution.
Jul 25, 2008, 7:57 am
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Then, if they wanted to, they could have added a checkbox for "remember me for my next visit only from this computer", and added their current logic.
I can't figure out why anyone would select this last, though. Seems like it is either a private computer or a public one. If the computer is sometimes public, it doesn't seem to make sense that you would know that nobody would log onto AA.com before the next time you did.
Jul 25, 2008, 8:20 am
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On AA.com the search by price and schedule option has now been "enhanced". One is now able to see the cheapest prices on three days either side of the chosen return date (previously only available for the chosen departure date). An excellent improvement and incredibly useful. Now if they would only make this thing fast...
Jul 25, 2008, 9:09 am
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Unfortunately, AA gives and AA takes away. The other "enhancement" is not so wonderful. Now you have to check the new "Remember my AAdvantage Number on this computer for my next visit" box every time you log in even if it's from the same computer. Thanks for adding the extra click, AA!
Cheers.
Jul 25, 2008, 10:39 am
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Finally!
Thrilled to have the 3 day before/after tabs on the return flight, and speed isn't an issue on my set at least. Nice enhancement.
Jul 25, 2008, 12:06 pm
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Kudos on the other change, though.
Jul 25, 2008, 12:14 pm
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I dont seem to be havng the problem with the check box. Have you check to see if you are blocking cookies?
Jul 25, 2008, 12:54 pm
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Jul 25, 2008, 1:10 pm
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Actually that one doesn't seem to be working for me with this new change - unless I check the box, when I logout and go back to the home page, my AAdv number does not appear, and hence neither does the password. It COULD have to do with the fact that I have multiple AAdv numbers/passwords stored for family members, but I have no way to test that. Fortunately, the first character of each AAdv number is different, so it's still pretty fast with the autocomplete feature.
Kudos on the other change, though.
Kudos on the other change, though.
Cheers.