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Old Aug 6, 2010, 8:04 am
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And everyone guessed that the GreaseMonkey workaround would disappear and having 1 mile in their account would be sufficient. I've got 0 miles and can easily run all the searches I want.
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Old Aug 6, 2010, 8:38 am
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Perhaps a passing SPG Plat might deposit small sums in to the ANA account and let us know what the current magic figure is?
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Old Aug 6, 2010, 8:44 am
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Transfers from SPG to ANA are only executed once a week.

This may take a while.....
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Old Aug 6, 2010, 9:06 am
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Well the magic figure seems to be between 51and 99 right now - so if you can spare 74 miles, you can divide the range in two - or if you know another plat (what are the chances ) you could arrange to split the range.

I predic they will eventually move to the old reliable M&M system of needing enough miles in your account to search the particular route.
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Old Aug 6, 2010, 9:30 am
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Originally Posted by GoldCircle
I predic they will eventually move to the old reliable M&M system of needing enough miles in your account to search the particular route.
Is that right ? I was searching this morning on M&M for TATL F/J class flights and I have a fairly paltry number of M&M miles (less than 20k)...

[interestingly M&M and ANA disagreed about availability and the ICC agreed with M&M, which was good ]
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Old Aug 6, 2010, 3:28 pm
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Originally Posted by Stewie Mac
[interestingly M&M and ANA disagreed about availability and the ICC agreed with M&M, which was good ]
It would be very good indeed if we are getting the same availibility as M&M rather than the standard *A availability.
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Old Aug 7, 2010, 9:47 am
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Originally Posted by GoldCircle
Perhaps a passing SPG Plat might deposit small sums in to the ANA account and let us know what the current magic figure is?
Just tried to make transfer small amount of spg points into my ANA account.
I was not able to make it. I don't know the reason.
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Old Aug 7, 2010, 9:59 am
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Originally Posted by Stewie Mac
Is that right ? I was searching this morning on M&M for TATL F/J class flights and I have a fairly paltry number of M&M miles (less than 20k)...

[interestingly M&M and ANA disagreed about availability and the ICC agreed with M&M, which was good ]
wow, this is great news ... maybe part of the LH integration? M&M avail. is usually better than *A avail.
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Old Aug 9, 2010, 4:23 pm
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Originally Posted by GoldCircle
Well the magic figure seems to be between 51and 99 right now - so if you can spare 74 miles, you can divide the range in two - or if you know another plat (what are the chances ) you could arrange to split the range.

I predic they will eventually move to the old reliable M&M system of needing enough miles in your account to search the particular route.
Is anyone else doing this? I'm an SPG plat and can spare a few points to try and find the threshold. If you are doing it, let me know and we can coordinate.
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Old Aug 19, 2010, 6:20 pm
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This seems to be a topic of interest on numerous forums, but the BMI crew seems to have narrowed the range the most. If folks can confirm 50 still doesn't work and 100 does, I can post 75 from my SPG account tomorrow to help narrow it down. I can probably round up a few US/SPG PLT's to join the fun.

EDIT: I started a thread in the *A forum - ANA minimum
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Old Sep 7, 2010, 6:55 pm
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wrong thread, please ignore
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Old Oct 21, 2010, 12:48 pm
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More bad news;
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The itinerary you entered is not valid. The booking period for the Star Alliance Award Ticket is between 330 days to 7 days prior to the date of departure.
It appears as though all results 7 days prior to today's date are now zeroed out... a bit of a pain for finding those last minute seats - so, M&M only now I guess for the last minute checks to see if F has opened up

Edit: Good news though - Award Nexus works still so it appears the backend systems aren't blocking this...?
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Old Oct 21, 2010, 2:29 pm
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Originally Posted by littlevoices
It appears as though all results 7 days prior to today's date are now zeroed out...
Unfortunately you are correct!

This "enhancement” must have literally started today, as I had no problem searching for last minute flights yesterday.
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Old Oct 21, 2010, 2:40 pm
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Angry KVS also affected
I think that KVS might also be affected by this change too.

< 7 days

[KVS Availability Tool 5.7.9/Platinum - SNT: Awards/StarAlliance/JP-ANA-STD]
Code:
ZRH  Zurich CH [LSZH]
SFO  San Francisco Int'l CA US [KSFO]
SUN  24 Oct 2010 | 1 Seat

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  -------------
LX         38      ZRH   13:15     SFO   16:30     343  0   FS/  CS-  YS/
> 7 days

[KVS Availability Tool 5.7.9/Platinum - SNT: Awards/StarAlliance/JP-ANA-STD]
Code:
ZRH  Zurich CH [LSZH]
SFO  San Francisco Int'l CA US [KSFO]
SUN  31 Oct 2010 | 1 Seat

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  -------------
LX         38      ZRH   13:15     SFO   17:20     343  0   FS-  CS-  YS-
ExpertFlyer seems unaffected thankfully for LX
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Old Oct 21, 2010, 2:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Tiger_lily
I think that KVS might also be affected by this change too.
A new version of the KVS Tool has been released yesterday, which is not affected by this latest change:

[KVS Availability Tool 5.8.0/Diamond - SNT: Awards/StarAlliance/JP-ANA-SP1]
Code:
ZRH  Zurich CH [LSZH]
SFO  San Francisco Intl CA US [KSFO]
SUN  24 Oct 2010 | 1 Seat

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  -------------
LX         38      ZRH   13:15     SFO   16:30     343  0   FS-  CS-  YS-
LX         316     ZRH   07:15     LHR   08:05     320  0   FS/  CS+  YS+
 -> UA     955     LHR   10:35     SFO   13:49     777  0   FS-  CS-  YS+
LX         332     ZRH   12:05     LHR   13:00     321  0   FS/  CS-  YS-
 -> UA     931     LHR   14:10     SFO   17:14     777  0   FS-  CS-  YS-
LX         1068    ZRH   07:00     FRA   08:15     320  0   FS/  CS+  YS+
 -> LH     454     FRA   09:55     SFO   12:05     744  0   FS-  CS+  YS-
LH         3723    ZRH   10:40     FRA   11:45     320  0   FS/  CS+  YS+
 -> UA     901     FRA   14:00     SFO   16:28     744  0   FS+  CS-  YS+
LH         3729    ZRH   15:10     FRA   16:10     733  0   FS/  CS+  YS+
 -> UA     927     FRA   17:25     SFO   20:07     777  0   FS+  CS-  YS+
LX         634     ZRH   09:05     CDG   10:20     320  0   FS/  CS+  YS+
 -> UA     915     CDG   12:25     SFO   18:40     CHG  1+  FS-  CS-  YS-
LX         786     ZRH   07:15     BRU   08:30     AR1  0   FS/  CS+  YS+
 -> UA     973     BRU   11:00     SFO   17:41     CHG  1+  FS-  CS-  YS-
LX         2804    ZRH   09:40     GVA   10:25     733  0   FS/  CS+  YS+
 -> UA     975     GVA   12:00     SFO   20:13     CHG  1+  FS-  CS-  YS-
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