If I understand your question correctly, caribconsult, fare types typically vary by airline and are not universal — so, no.

Moreover, there are occasionally times where fare types of an airline are added, eliminated or changed...

First, I don't see the Show Threads vs. Show Posts option. Is this info outdated?

Second, when I hit go, I do see post-snippets within the thread containing the search term, but I don't know how to find the complete post. Clicking on the snippet always takes me to the main thread page, and it is difficult to find a particular post if the thread is 50 pages long.

When I click on Search right now. there are two radial buttons, Show threads and Show Posts, so I'm not sure why you're having problems.

This is what I see: http://imgur.com/a/mQhlS

That's odd.

If you click on advanced search, do you see "Show Threads" versus "Show posts"? If you click Show Posts, in the search results, do not click on the title of the thread, but rather the first line of text in the message, which should be hyperlinked in italics under the name of the poster. That should bring you to the specific post.

I do not see Show Threads or Show Posts in advanced search. Here's what my advanced search looks like: http://imgur.com/a/8uYqw

I'm using Chrome on a mac.

Congratulations, elexhobby — you found an error which has stood the test of time for nine years; and I have edited the content accordingly.

Show Threads makes absolutely no sense when you are searching for content within a thread; so you will not find that option — never have, never will.

The radial buttons to which Adam1222 is referring will only appear when you are searching multiple threads and not just content within a thread.

I hope this makes sense; and I apologize for any inconvenience my error caused.

Um, what is a milepost, in this context?

Thank you for explaining this. I was excited to read it, as it solves the problem I was having.

Well, almost. It works just as you said: "Only threads or mileposts with both Park and Lane will appear as a result." However, Park and Lane do not need to appear together, or even in the same post for a thread to be returned. (In my brief testing, the terms did both appear on the same page, which is way better than both terms appearing anywhere in the thread.)

Milepost is a term I made up long ago for content posted on FlyerTalk, rather than simply post. I thought it was more appropriate for a site such as FlyerTalk.

Back when what you referred to was written almost 17 years ago, what I wrote was the case. The search feature on FlyerTalk has improved over the years; so what I wrote may be slightly outdated at this point...

Fair enough.
In case it wasn't clear, the main purpose of my post was to thank you for providing useful information. I had seen the information was old; it is still correct as written (as far as I can tell). It comes close to solving the problem that you mentioned, and I hoped to inform others, who might have misinterpreted (as I did) what you posted all those years ago, that it returns instances where the two terms are not adjacent. As far as I can tell, the improvements to the search features on FlyerTalk do not include a full solution to your example problem (Park Lane), but the plus sign is a real time saver even if it does not return only what I had hoped.

Thanks again.

Your assistance, Canarsie, has stood the test of time. :tu: :cool:

Too bad I am unlikely ever to make it out to Brooklyn. :(

That is one of the sadder things I've read. (That's not a dig at Brooklyn; it would be sad never to make it out of anywhere.)

Thanks for chiming in Canarsie, because I wasn't sure what that referred to!

This section of the FlyerTalk forum is called Miles & Points, and I think it was even called that 17 years ago.

And even some airlines, including Southwest Airlines, use points, not miles.

So I think perhaps a better term might have been milespointspost.

Milepost seemed like a confusing term when the example being quoted above was searching for a hotel, not an airline. I know of know hotel programs that call their currency "miles".

Seems like a discussion of the pros and cons of a term someone used in a post 7 years ago is not particularly helpful to anyone, or relevant to the topic of the thread.