New Ding Feature - Filter Cities... Kinda.
Sep 14, 2005, 5:41 pm
#16
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I thought the filters merely reduced the number of fares displayed. That's different from Ding fares that are targeted to your home city. The latter has only been done twice. Filters do not increase the number of Ding fare options.
Sep 14, 2005, 5:58 pm
#17
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Yes filters only filter out what is shown in your browser. You still have access to 'all' fares. They apparently experimented earlier this week with only giving you fares for your home city, but since then they are now giving all fares to all Ding subscribers, but allowing you to set a display filter to only see the city you are interested in.
Sep 14, 2005, 6:01 pm
#18
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Originally Posted by pitflyer
Yes filters only filter out what is shown in your browser. You still have access to 'all' fares. They apparently experimented earlier this week with only giving you fares for your home city, but since then they are now giving all fares to all Ding subscribers, but allowing you to set a display filter to only see the city you are interested in.
Sep 15, 2005, 4:28 pm
#19
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Originally Posted by nsx
I thought the filters merely reduced the number of fares displayed. That's different from Ding fares that are targeted to your home city. The latter has only been done twice. Filters do not increase the number of Ding fare options.
I check my DING! fares pretty regularly - not each and every day - but I've never seen so many DING! fares for one city like the previous posters had for Baltimore, Houston, Oakland, and Pittsburgh.
Was that a fluke I missed, or are those mega-multi-fares accessible some other way?
Sep 15, 2005, 9:52 pm
#20
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Originally Posted by Aimless
Was that a fluke I missed?
Oct 3, 2005, 10:53 am
#21
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Originally Posted by pitflyer
Yes filters only filter out what is shown in your browser. You still have access to 'all' fares. They apparently experimented earlier this week with only giving you fares for your home city, but since then they are now giving all fares to all Ding subscribers, but allowing you to set a display filter to only see the city you are interested in.
I changed my 'home airport' listing to DAL, and after awhile got a new Ding! listing: DAL-to-HOU and HOU-to-DAL only.
I prefer the more complete lists of fares they usually send.
Oct 3, 2005, 1:49 pm
#23
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There's no excuse for not giving you all area airports, but at least for now, you'll have to update your home airport to BUR ("update registration" on the DING program) and wait for the new info to be delivered. And then do it again for ONT. And then do it again for SNA. And then remember to do it one final time to reset it to LAX for next time.
Oct 4, 2005, 6:36 pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. July
There's no excuse for not giving you all area airports, but at least for now, you'll have to update your home airport to BUR ("update registration" on the DING program) and wait for the new info to be delivered. And then do it again for ONT. And then do it again for SNA. And then remember to do it one final time to reset it to LAX for next time.
Oct 6, 2005, 7:56 am
#25
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They seem to be giving access to all cities again, but the pull-down Filter doesn't seem to be working properly.
When I select DTW, it pares the list down to:
ALB-MDW
DTW-MCI
DTW-RNO
HOU-JAX
and the reverse trips for those 4 routes
When I select DTW, it pares the list down to:
ALB-MDW
DTW-MCI
DTW-RNO
HOU-JAX
and the reverse trips for those 4 routes