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Old Jan 21, 2015, 10:55 am
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Here are some more hidden features of the ITA software.

The extensions to the itasoftware routing language are accessed by postpending commands after a '/'. There's a wide set of commands available, but there's no description of them available on the ITA web site. Unfortunately, each command applies only to one part of the trip, so they must usually be entered in each box.

EXCLUDE SPECIFIC AIRLINES
Command is "-airlines XX ..."
Ex: prohibit jetBlue or Delta
from: BOS ::/ -airlines B6 DL
to: LAX ::/ -airlines B6 DL

LIMIT TO SPECIFIC AIRLINES
Command is "airlines XX ..."
Ex: consider only jetBlue or Delta
from: BOS ::/ airlines B6 DL
to: LAX ::/ airlines B6 DL

LIMIT TO A SINGLE ALLIANCE
Command is "alliance star-alliance|oneworld|skyteam"
Ex: oneworld carriers only
from: BOS ::/ alliance oneworld
to: LAX ::/ alliance oneworld

EXCLUDE CODESHARES
Command is "-codeshare"
Ex: prohibit jetBlue or Delta
from: BOS ::/ -codeshare
to: LAX ::/ -codeshare

LIMIT DURATION OF ITINERARY, IN MINUTES
Command is "maxdur XXX"
Ex: no more than 5hrs for each part of trip
from: BOS ::/ maxdur 300
to: LAX ::/ maxdur 300

EXCLUDE OVERNIGHT STOPS, AIRPORT CHANGES, REDEYES, PROPELLER PLANES, TRAINS, HELICOPTERS, ANY KIND OF SURFACE TRAVEL
Commands are "-overnight", "-change", "-redeye", "-prop", "-train", "-helicopter", "-surface"
Ex: no overnight stops, no airport changes, no redeyes, no propeller planes
from: BOS ::/ -overnight, -change, -redeye, -prop
to: LAX ::/ -overnight, -change, -redeye, -prop

SET MINIMUM OR MAXIMUM TIME FOR CONNECTIONS, IN MINUTES
Commands are "minconnect XX", "maxconnect XX"
Ex: no less than one hour, no more than two hour connections
from: BOS ::/ minconnect 60, maxconnect 120
to: LAX ::/ minconnect 60, maxconnect 120

EXTRA CONNECTION TIME
Command is "padconnect XX"
Ex: require at least 20 minutes more than airline specified minimum connection time
from: BOS ::/ padconnect 20
to: LAX ::/ padconnect 20

PUTTING LOTS OF THINGS TOGETHER
Separate with commas.
Ex:
from: BOS :: UA UA / f bc=l|bc=y, -redeye, -prop
to: LAX :: UA+ / f ua.bos+lax.yup, padconnect 20, -overnight
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Old Aug 7, 2013, 1:19 pm
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Originally Posted by quetza
I've tried with Firefox, Chrome and IE. Even a simple query like:

From: LON, AMS, BRU, FRA, MUC, GVA, ZRH
To: NYC, WAS, BOS
Calendar 12/15/2013, 21-28 nights

fails every time. Is it just me?
We seem to be having trouble when the query contains more than one origin country. I have opened an internal ticket.
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Old Aug 7, 2013, 11:23 pm
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Originally Posted by quetza
I've tried with Firefox, Chrome and IE. Even a simple query like:

From: LON, AMS, BRU, FRA, MUC, GVA, ZRH
To: NYC, WAS, BOS
Calendar 12/15/2013, 21-28 nights

fails every time. Is it just me?
Not working for me either, but the reverse works fine.
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Old Aug 21, 2013, 5:58 pm
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Still not resolved
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Old Aug 22, 2013, 6:55 am
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For the last couple of days I'm getting a weird thing. The web browser I'm using is Google Chrome but when I go into the ITA Matrix website, it's there, but the area on the left hand side where I put destination, dates etc. is all blanked out. If I open the same website in a incognito window I get the website and can input the information as normal.
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Old Aug 22, 2013, 7:13 am
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Originally Posted by Taggart
For the last couple of days I'm getting a weird thing. The web browser I'm using is Google Chrome but when I go into the ITA Matrix website, it's there, but the area on the left hand side where I put destination, dates etc. is all blanked out. If I open the same website in a incognito window I get the website and can input the information as normal.
It's been a few days since I've been into ita - so I just tried it and I got the same symptom as you (using chrome). Then I did a refresh and got the normal screen, no need for an incognito window. YMMV
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Old Aug 22, 2013, 7:19 am
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My usual line of attempted fixes:-
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One of these will deal with most problems of this ilk - particularly when you can see that the website itself is working (eg it works in an incognito window).
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Old Aug 22, 2013, 4:29 pm
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Same problem here. Are you using ....... for Chrome? That seemed to be interfering on my end. With it whitelisting ITA it seems to come up now.
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Old Aug 22, 2013, 4:36 pm
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I've just noticed that there was a new release of Chrome a couple of days ago, which might have something to do with this.
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Old Aug 23, 2013, 1:47 am
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I was actually experiencing this issue on the dev build of Chrome (both Mac and Windows) for the past few months but the latest update this week to v30 seems to have fixed it for me. Clearing cache all that didn't do a thing beforehand. I had to use Firefox.
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Old Aug 23, 2013, 10:24 am
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Thanks for all the advice above. Clearing the cache didn't help in Google Chrome, so I resolved the problem by running a couple of cleaner programs I already had installed on my system. ITA Matrix now looks like it's normal webpage again
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Old Sep 6, 2013, 11:34 am
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please help, I used to inter in advance search: "UA, UA, UA" to find best price between city pairs with 3 connections, now I tried it and I get this:
The search failed with QPX Warning. Bad route specification

where som changes made to search on ITA? what am I missing?
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Old Sep 6, 2013, 11:46 am
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Originally Posted by SiberianTiger
please help, I used to inter in advance search: "UA, UA, UA" to find best price between city pairs with 3 connections, now I tried it and I get this:
The correct syntax is simply UA UA UA
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Old Sep 6, 2013, 1:02 pm
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Originally Posted by SiberianTiger
please help, I used to inter in advance search: "UA, UA, UA" to find best price between city pairs with 3 connections, now I tried it and I get this:
The search failed with QPX Warning. Bad route specification

where som changes made to search on ITA? what am I missing?
Technically, the commas are an "or," so you're telling ITA: one single flight on United or United or United. (Not sure if the spaces after the commas affect the syntax, as I always do something like "UA,DL,AA"). The correct syntax is without a comma, as KVS indicates.
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Old Sep 6, 2013, 9:24 pm
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Thank you!! I think it's working without comas, now I don't remember if I ever used them or not Thanks again
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Old Sep 8, 2013, 5:51 pm
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Originally Posted by jackal
Technically, the commas are an "or," so you're telling ITA: one single flight on United or United or United. (Not sure if the spaces after the commas affect the syntax, as I always do something like "UA,DL,AA"). The correct syntax is without a comma, as KVS indicates.
Spaces affect the semantics significantly, as they delimit legs! What SiberianTiger is actually asking: "one leg on United or(comma) on nothing then(space) one leg on United or(comma) on nothing then(space) one leg on United or(comma) on nothing".

Which should actually work if ITA was smarter and accepted "nothing" as a valid input.
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