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UA-NYC May 24, 2011 3:37 pm

FWIW I think KVS is just about the greatest thing ever...

joebeenyc May 25, 2011 12:01 pm

I'm right with ya UA-NYC. Its the greatest ever

sgopal2 May 30, 2011 10:52 am

Hello - I've had the opportunity to beta-test the new CO upgrade functionality on KVS. Here are my comments

  • Overall this is an excellent feature and is much highly appreciated. With a couple of clicks you can search a city pair for award availability on CO.com.
  • Only a single date can be searched at a time. This is very similar to the other screens on KVS. It would be nice if a whole range of dates can be searched at once. Since the searches can take up to 60 secs, this requires being in front of the computer to manually change the dates. In my case, I wanted to look for award openings for an entire month period. This took me about me about 5 mins for each city-pair using KVS (vs 60 mins using the manual method). However KVS does make it easy to search sequential dates (forward or backward) using the down and up arrow keys buttons on the Awards/Upgrade tabs.
  • UA code shares flights are not visible, only CO flights. They are visible however using the Star Alliance search.

Despite this however, I find the addition of this small feature to be one of the most valuable capabilities of KVS tool. In the past it took me hours and hours to manually click through 4-5 screens for each single date on the CO.com website. KVS reduces this to a couple of clicks and makes it quite easy. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to search for CO award availability online.

terminalc Jun 1, 2011 4:39 pm


Originally Posted by sgopal2 (Post 16473615)
KVS reduces this to a couple of clicks and makes it quite easy. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to search for CO award availability online.

+1

KVS Jun 13, 2011 6:08 pm


Originally Posted by sgopal2 (Post 16473615)
Hello - I've had the opportunity to beta-test the new CO upgrade functionality on KVS. Here are my comments

  • Overall this is an excellent feature and is much highly appreciated. With a couple of clicks you can search a city pair for award availability on CO.com.
  • Only a single date can be searched at a time. This is very similar to the other screens on KVS. It would be nice if a whole range of dates can be searched at once. Since the searches can take up to 60 secs, this requires being in front of the computer to manually change the dates. In my case, I wanted to look for award openings for an entire month period. This took me about me about 5 mins for each city-pair using KVS (vs 60 mins using the manual method). However KVS does make it easy to search sequential dates (forward or backward) using the down and up arrow keys buttons on the Awards/Upgrade tabs.
  • UA code shares flights are not visible, only CO flights. They are visible however using the Star Alliance search.

Despite this however, I find the addition of this small feature to be one of the most valuable capabilities of KVS tool. In the past it took me hours and hours to manually click through 4-5 screens for each single date on the CO.com website. KVS reduces this to a couple of clicks and makes it quite easy. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to search for CO award availability online.

Many thanks for your illustrative feedback and participation in the CO Upgrade Availability Beta, which is now a part of KVS Tool V6.2.0 release.

terminalc Jun 13, 2011 7:51 pm

It's worked well for me. I quickly found 2 upgrades to HKG last week & booked them.

Thanks KVS

KVS Jul 31, 2011 12:31 pm

Please note that the existing [ITA: Upgrades/CO] Method is temporarily unavailable, due to the yesterday's changes in the CO engine.

A new [ITA: Awards-Upgrades/CO] Method will be released shortly and will include full CO Award & Upgrade Availability (incl. R/I/FN/FE/ZN/ZE/YN/HN/X/XN Booking Classes).

Here is a 'sneak preview':

[KVS Availability Tool 6.4.0/Diamond - ITA: Awards-Upgrades/CO]
Code:

NYC  New York Metro NY US = JFK LGA
LON  London Metro UK = LHR LGW STN LTN LCY QQS QQW ZLS ZEP
TUE  01 Nov 2011

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CO        18      EWR  10:00    LHR  21:20    752      J9 FN9 FE0 C9 D0 Z0 ZN0 ZE0 R0 O0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E0 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G0 N9 XN9 X3
CO/VS      9742    JFK  19:10    LHR  06:20 +1  346      J4 C4 D4 Z4 I2 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 X2
CO        110    EWR  19:15    LHR  06:20 +1  752      J9 FN9 FE0 C9 D9 Z2 ZN2 ZE2 R0 O0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E0 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G0 N9 XN1 X0
CO        28      EWR  20:15    LHR  07:25 +1  772      J9 FN9 FE0 C9 D9 Z9 ZN9 ZE9 R9 O2 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E0 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G0 N9 XN9 X9
CO/VS      9754    JFK  20:45    LHR  07:50 +1  346      J4 C4 D4 Z4 I2 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 X2
CO        8      EWR  22:15    LHR  09:25 +1  752      J9 FN9 FE0 C9 D8 Z4 ZN4 ZE4 R0 O0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E0 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G0 N9 XN9 X9
CO        114    EWR  23:05    LHR  10:15 +1  752      J9 FN9 FE0 C9 D9 Z9 ZN9 ZE9 R5 O0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E0 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G0 N9 XN9 X9
CO/VS      9746    JFK  23:25    LHR  10:25 +1  346      J4 C4 D4 Z4 I2 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 X2
CO/VS      9740    EWR  22:25    LHR  09:05 +1  744      J4 C4 D4 Z4 I2 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 X2
CO/XE      7210    EWR  16:57    IAD  18:10    EM4      Y9 B9 M9 E1 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G2
 -> CO/UA  4223    IAD  19:46    LHR  06:55 +1  772      J9 C9 D9 Z9 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9
CO/9L      4957    EWR  19:30    IAD  20:56    DH4      Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X9
 -> CO/UA  4229    IAD  23:02    LHR  10:15 +1  772      J9 C9 D9 Z9 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9
CO/XE      2478    EWR  06:15    IAD  07:40    EM4      Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X9
 -> CO/UA  4227    IAD  10:37    LHR  22:00    763      J9 C9 D9 Z8 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9
CO/9L      4922    EWR  15:10    IAD  16:47    DH4      Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X9
 -> CO/UA  4223    IAD  19:46    LHR  06:55 +1  772      J9 C9 D9 Z9 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9
CO/XE      2128    EWR  14:00    IAD  15:19    EM4      Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X6
 -> CO/UA  4223    IAD  19:46    LHR  06:55 +1  772      J9 C9 D9 Z9 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9
CO        22      EWR  19:10    DUB  05:50 +1  752      J9 FN9 FE0 C9 D9 Z8 ZN8 ZE8 R0 O0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E0 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S0 T0 L0 K0 G0 N0 XN0 X0
 -> CO/BD  8860    DUB  06:45 +1  LHR  08:05 +1  320      J0 C0 D0 Z0 Y7 B7 M7 H7 Q0 V0 W0 S0 L0



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