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Originally Posted by wallaby

Is there a way to specify Business Class fares on Dream Maps?

I'm with you, wallaby. Does anyone know if this is possible?

http://www.homezonebc.com/fares/index.html is another useful reference.

the search tool is a wonderful thing.
Thanks OP ^ ^

excellent tool, many thanks...!!! ^ ^

Very helpful, choster. ^

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Originally Posted by 70Jaguar

Amen on adding South and Central America.

In addition, I wish
(1)that Dream Maps would show Canadian cities and Alaska from all of the U.S. (I hear that Canadian cities sometimes show up from Northern U.S. cities.)
(2) that one be able to set both minimum and maximum fares. This would allow you to fine tune your searches. You can creatively use the maximum fares to eliminate some clutter, but you could force more cities by elimating both low and high priced cities.
(3) that your be force a few cities to show up. For instance, BWI almost never shows up on a Dream Map centered on Houston, yet it often has good fares. Less popular destinations (such as Jackson from Houston) rarely show up, and you could force them to do so.
(4) that when you click on a city on the map and a list of fares comes up, the list comes up, the list contain more information -- advance purchase, minimum stay, season, and days of travel.

My own personal pet peeves:

- No Mexico. :confused: Travelocity may be surprised to learn that Cancun, for one, is a fairly popular destination. And Cozumel for divers. Also Cabo, Acapulco, etc.

- The dreaded "no airline operates flights on that route on that day" message. Yeah, but the one offering the fare certainly does in conjunction with one of its partners, geniuses. I half expect to attempt to pull up a LAX-JFK fare one day and get that message.

But no need for sour grapes. Travelocity Dream Maps for all its flaws, is still a brilliant tool, now made even more useful with choster's tips.

Now if there was only a URL parameter to get it to show UA fares again. :mad:

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Originally Posted by VPescado

Now if there was only a URL parameter to get it to show UA fares again.

But... but... I thought it was supposed to show the low fares? :D

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Originally Posted by DanTravels

But... but... I thought it was supposed to show the low fares? :D

Your sarcasm is duly noted, and seconded by me. But notwithstanding that UA is rarely the cheapest, or anywhere near the cheapest, if indeed even reasonably competitive with the other major carriers, some of us would still like to find those days on which UA fares might be lower than on other days ("flexible dates"), that is when they are relatively low by UA standards.

I'm not getting the maps, even using the default settings. Is there some possible glitch I can fix? Not sure if the work techies have blocked this but I don't see the blockpage line in the URL. Anybody know where to check in Window to make sure I'm set up for this?

Dreammaps uses another TCP port (8600) for its images. Our corporate proxy filter (kindly) filters this out for me... could be the same thing for you.