rpmkwpw

I thought I'd pass on the following airport code lists.

They're a help if you tend to search the same destinations for deals repeatedly. I created some of them with the help of the Great Circle Mapper's Range feature and the destination list for my airline, which happens to be AA. You may find them useful, particularly if you adjust them for your own origin city and airline (be sure to set option to search "or any airport within 300 miles"):

All US airports search (with any number of segments on AA) from NYC:AA Eur. (incl. codeshare, any number of segments on AA):I keep these lists (and several others I have for other regions) in an Outlook Note, so they're handy. I just copy and paste the list I need when doing a search and adjust as necessary. When search results come up, I recommend clicking the "Airports" tab to get an overview of the fares available.

A tip for more advanced searches: remove 'minor' airports to add extra stuff at the end (e.g. connecting cities, etc.). For AA searches, for instance, BOI and GEG won't yield much anyway, so they're easily expendible.

Enjoy!

a1bengal

did give it a try using in the from box Ewr:UA UA but it offered me city choices not United ? humm must read more Cheers jane

aaronma

Try two colons, i.e., EWR:: UA UA

Might do the trick.

sapman986

This is great. Kudos to you for posting it.

ORDDB

This site seems great...except for one thing. It doesn't seem like you can actually book a flight on it.

What experiences have people had trying to find the same MR itin you generat on here on another site? Or is there something I'm missing as far as being able to buy on ITA?

Thanks,
ORD

RobOnLI

Question....ITA shows a certain fare in 'T' class. If you attempt to book the same flights directly with the airline (Northwest), NW will only offer you a 'V' fare on some of the flights, thus making the fare about $40 higher.

Anyone know a solution to this problem?

-RM

mucsea

I just put together my latest "mileage enhanced" trip with this tool and then e-mailed it to my company's travel agent. 30 minutes later she had it booked at the exact same price. And she didn't even blink even though the routing is SEA-PDX-SFO-LAS-ORD-YUL and YUL-ORD-SMF-SFO-PDX-SEA.
I couldn't get it done on expedia and ual.com priced the same trip at $400 more.
So my suggestion would be to find a travel agent to book it for you until ITA allows us to book there.

USCheapskate

Remember that availability for seats is updated frequently, so just because it's available when you search for it, doesn't mean it will be available 5 minutes later. It's pretty likely that the exact flights you're looking for won't change, but it can happen.

Once you know that a certain itinerary exists, you can often trick one of the other travel websites into booking it for you. But sometimes ITA will produce solutions that are hard to book.

I doubt ITA will ever let you book on their site - Orbitz is one of their main customers (the Orbitz web site is based around an older version of their search engine), and it's not good to compete with your main customer...

MRSTARALLIANCE

Can someone post the link for me??

Sorry to be a pain, just I cant seem to find it


Many many thanks


Dave

aaronma

Hope that helped

slippahs

Great advice -- thanks for the tips!

aloha

I-flybynight

Bump just too keep it up front

rquesty

Is there a good guide to how to use beta.itasoftware.com. You guys seem to be wizz's at getting info on cheapest flights and most segments. All I ever come up with is rubbish. What's the trick ?


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Latitudes

This is a great tool for finding mileage runs, however I can't find any flights operated by Singapore Airlines. I've tried multiple combinations of example code that I copied from FlyerTalk but cannot find one SQ flight. I even tried removing any carrier information from the request on a SYD-SIN sector and ITA gave me all other airlines except SQ.

Can ITA find SQ flights?

Kiwi Flyer

Interesting - even forcing to use SQ (::SQ code) doesnt return anything