dracjimm

Which carrier is this on, I only get results in $$$$ in * A, using EZE or LIM as my C4 stop, and various C2 destinations.

If you had a wife, she'd be thrilled about how you're helping effect world peace by getting more peeps to travel to each others lands

Cheerfulflyer

Only a pesos loving whore who also likes to do it with the stars would qualify. Candidates make yourself known.

WingedWorldExplorer

ST: C1 airports only East of Mississippi River.
ST C4 Northern South America

msvacation

If you had a wife, she'd probably leave you for spending too much time on FT

Cheaper to go with option 2.

antonius66

I am having zero luck finding this c1-germany * setup. Any clues?

nasmaster007

Does anyone have a good idea of what a good list of FD airports looks like? There are 9400 or so airport codes, and I have that list. But is a list of "Major Airports" more reasonable to limit my search space?

juli

Finding things nobody else has found isn't as trivial as you might think; there are people who spend a lot of time analyzing fares, pricing patterns, interlining agreements, etc., which is much more productive than brute force, especially if each brute force attempt takes a long time.

If you're making queries for your own use, and not commercial gain, and are not making them around the clock, you might be okay, but it's best to ask a lawyer and carefully go over the terms of service for ITA. Of course, you could just buy a license to their services if you really want to search around the clock. Changing your source IPs to get around bans or rate-limits is a big no-no. Look at what's happening with Aaron Swartz for doing that to access JSTOR. If they prevent you from accessing their service and you circumvent that, that's a crime. Take the hint.

You absolutely should not be screen-scraping. I mean, I cannot say what a poor (from a programming perspective) idea that is. It creates more work for their servers and more work for you. Even a trivial glance at the transactions between your browser and ITA would show you what their JSON query interface is like. It too me about an hour to write an automated query program (having no experience with web programming myself) and another few hours to make a set of presentation, sorting, etc., scripts I could live with. Don't make ITA do the presentation work for you for every request just to throw it away. That said, for tricked fares with a lot of constraints, transfers, etc., even that interface can take over a minute for a single fare. Usually on the order of 30-40 seconds for a RT with a 3x, or about 5-10 seconds if you just want to find cheap one-way fares to look for low base fares with or without lots of YQ.

ordua

Whats the lowest you are getting now C1-C2? What if its not to Spain?

FrankTalk

Now this is something to think about in terms of other continents... Monday 1:58am and here we goooooo...

WingedWorldExplorer

If you change the continents, you change the price..

If you start from an Island in Europe, you can avoid the Tix 1. wrap-around and get the price down to 435.00 Euros.

janetdoe

I would start here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=list+of+airports

In particular the Orbitz list may be helpful. I pasted it into Excel and it looks like it narrows it down to ~3700.

The problem is that a lot of the 3Xs are between minor airports.

Sagy

If you need, I have an excel spreadsheet with IATA codes and locations of over 4,200 airports including all the key 3x routes. It also includes another 1,100 airports with only ICAO code, and it also has IATA codes for key train stations (e.g. XMU, XRF) and metropolitan areas (e.g. CHI, TYO).

aktchi

The practice of referring to surcharges as "taxes" has progressed from subtle to blatant. The following is a post by AA's official representative to MP: http://milepoint.com/forums/threads/...3/#post-660409

braffy

Does this require OJ or extra segment(s) to successfully drop the YQ? You mentioned a 1x in your earlier triple decker post... does that still apply for this double decker?

nasmaster007

It is certainly faster once you have the knowledge, but each attempt to read the fare rules takes a long time as well and if I brute force it then I can spend my time doing other things. Of course, once I find a few tricks (which may take me awhile, I agree) I can figure out how they work and find others. I can also find mistake fares and inexplicable pricing gaffes with brute force, especially if I target a site that actually tickets.

Come on, it's not like ITA is on MIT's network and that flight search results are copyrighted works and that I plan on publishing them afterwards. To be very clear, I do NOT plan on using ITA's interface. I will use an end ticketer that I won't name, which could have prices that differ from ITA and will only show prices that I can actually purchase.

I definitely agree. Did you use... ah, this is getting technical. I will PM you. Appreciate the feedback though!