aktchi

It should not work as typed. I am sure you typed :: / alliance star-alliance

I just checked and the alliance feature works fine for me in Matrix2. After clicking modify search I find the "/" intact. Could be browser issue in your case, or something else.

Try it again. To make sure we are starting on the same page, you should have four boxes and below them the text "Remove advanced routing codes" (of course, don't click it as you do want advanced options). Fill the four boxes as follows (you can change the airports to your choice)

BOS
/ alliance star-alliance
JFK
/ alliance star-alliance

Fill in the departure and return dates. Look at the four boxes to make sure they still say what you typed. Now submit the query. It should work, but let us know.

For me on a Mac with Safari, with or without a space before or after the /, all combinations work just fine.

belfordrocks

Does the cost per mile include 500 mile minimums?

MartinElk

Thanks for the new features. I got the alliance option to work OK, but I used the url you specified for the price-per-mile option and I don't see that information showing up anywhere. Where is that info supposed to be showing up? (Using Firefox)

I also tried it later in Chrome, and saw where they showed on each segment's Price, but not for the total cost of the itinerary, but in Chrome it was showing the price in Euros instead of US Dollars.

2FlyOrNotToFly

You're quite correct, Aktchi. I did include the "/".

No matter what I try, I still can't get the "/alliance star-alliance" to work in version 2 when I use Internet Explorer. However when I used Firefox there was no problem. I think you must be right suspecting it's a browser thing.

Thanks for all the help!

ITA Hacker

No, it does not. Just the actual flown miles, per flight segment (so it is done correctly for "direct" flights with stops).

ITA Hacker

A few details about this function that may explain the behavior:

Price per mile is only displayed on the screen when viewing "complete trips". In the other modes, like the time bars, there was no room in the display to show it, but it does show up in the pop-up window when you hover your mouse over the price. In either case sorting by price per mile works.

The "price" is not US-centric. PPM is displayed in whatever currency we're displaying prices in. We always display prices in the local currency of the "sales city" that you input (which defaults to "BOS", but we do remember it if you ever change it).

abmad

This is awesome. Thanks much!

dfreeman02

Puzzle #4 doesn't appear in Safari 5. All the others I've tried do.

TULOKCICT

Same here. Works fine in Chrome, but gives me the bad routing code in IE8 (even if I cut and paste the routing code).

gomike

My thought is this new site is just way too slow. I will be heartbroken when matrix1 is taken down.

aktchi

It might have been the other round if MS had acquired ITA. OTOH MS products have proven quite capable of such behavior with no help from any other quarter...

fanger

That would be nice as something in views available. Or am I just missing it?

plj496

What is the syntax to combine the 'alliance' filter with other faring-specs?
eg: for matrix-2, in the advanced-routing code box, I want to limit results to B-fares (150% eqm's) on star-alliance carriers.
I tried:
/f bc=b, alliance star-alliance

and got the error: 'The search failed with QPX Warning. Illegal faring spec'

also tried:
/ alliance star-alliance, f bc=b
and got the error: 'The search failed with QPX Warning. Malformed SLICE-COMMAND-LINE: alliance expects exactly one argument'

Thanks for the new features!

ITA Hacker

You were pretty close with your attempts, you just needed to use a semicolon (;) instead of a comma (,) to separate the different commands.

Note that the "bc=b" only controls the prime booking code of the fare that's used, when you're combining across carriers you may get flights booking into a variety of different booking codes. As I understand it, those class of service bonuses go by the actual booked booking code for each flight.

monnyc

The new functions are great, particularly cpm.

I am not sure if it's my browser (Firefox), but something odd happened when I was using multi-city. After doing one search I went back to change the dates but the departure and destination changed automatically as I plugged in new dates. Or when I entered a new date, it automatically subtracted one day, every time I plugged in a new date. I even cleared all recent searches, but finally opened a new window and had to start over. It happened to me several times, not with just one particular search.