[Awardtravelr] Search for *A/ST/OW awards online for free UPDATE: OW not working
Apr 25, 2012, 7:45 am
#61
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: ZRH
Programs: A3 Gold, AY Silver
Posts: 458
This is still a work in progress and we're trying to improve the accuracy!Great work, keep it up! Your tool has already come a long way since I first tried it three months ago.
Apr 29, 2012, 4:30 pm
#63
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 633
I was looking to book a RTW trip. The tool worked great finding segments all the way east through to Seoul, ICN. But it shows no availability out of Seoul? Checking the same route to several destinations, HNL, MSP, etc. shows availability for awards on Delta site, but nothing on Awardtravelr. These are for around 1/31/13.
Apr 30, 2012, 10:51 am
#65
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Bellevue, WA
Programs: UA
Posts: 281
I was looking to book a RTW trip. The tool worked great finding segments all the way east through to Seoul, ICN. But it shows no availability out of Seoul? Checking the same route to several destinations, HNL, MSP, etc. shows availability for awards on Delta site, but nothing on Awardtravelr. These are for around 1/31/13.
May 29, 2012, 6:32 pm
#70
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Troposphere (mostly)
Programs: BAEC Silver, SPG Somthingorother, et Mucci
Posts: 457
This site sounds like a great tool, but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one having problems. I cant get it to do anything at all really. It just sits on the Search in Progress... screen. I've left if for half an hour and it does nothing. I tried Chrome 19, IE 9, FF 10 (yes I know that's out of date) on two different ISPs - one of which I'm the firewall admin for so I know nothing's being blocked.
I started searching YVR-AKL on OW, then I tried YVR-HKG, YVR-LHR, LHR-JFK, LHR-SEA, etc etc On *A too. Tried dates ranging from next month to next year. The site just does nothing. Search in Progress... is all I ever get.
I can see the search queries updating on the home page so apparently it works for others, but I have no idea what's going on for me.
I started searching YVR-AKL on OW, then I tried YVR-HKG, YVR-LHR, LHR-JFK, LHR-SEA, etc etc On *A too. Tried dates ranging from next month to next year. The site just does nothing. Search in Progress... is all I ever get.
I can see the search queries updating on the home page so apparently it works for others, but I have no idea what's going on for me.
Jun 22, 2012, 12:24 pm
#73
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 153
Discrepancy between results vs actual
Looking to book travel 12/31 or 1/1 TLV - BOS for 4 seats. Tool shows 4 seats on LX 257 connecting on LX52. USAir states no seats on LX52.
Any idea why there is a discrepancy? As an aside the ANA tool shows the same availability on LX.
Any idea why there is a discrepancy? As an aside the ANA tool shows the same availability on LX.
Jun 28, 2012, 2:19 pm
#74
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Bellevue, WA
Programs: UA
Posts: 281
US may be doing StarNet blocking - which is a known problem. Keep trying - you'll find the route you want soon!
Jun 28, 2012, 2:22 pm
#75
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Bellevue, WA
Programs: UA
Posts: 281
Today, we're letting flyer-talkers try out our new tool - http://routegen.awardtravelr.com.
The tool is still in alpha development, but you get the rough idea. We basically want to generate routes based on airline timetable so award searchers can get a good idea of what's out there and what to search for. In the future, this will be integrated into AwardTravelr.
Try it out and let me know your thoughts! Keep in mind that the UI is just temporary and a new and better UI will launch in due time. Thanks! There are a few issues we're aware of:
- You may see some repeat routes due to the schedule we load - for the entire year. There are flights with the same number, but in actual fact, they are different flights for summer/winter seasons.
- The schedule is not the most up to date. This is based off an early 2010 schedule.
We're looking to get the schedule updated, include the OW/ST alliances in future releases.
The tool is still in alpha development, but you get the rough idea. We basically want to generate routes based on airline timetable so award searchers can get a good idea of what's out there and what to search for. In the future, this will be integrated into AwardTravelr.
Try it out and let me know your thoughts! Keep in mind that the UI is just temporary and a new and better UI will launch in due time. Thanks! There are a few issues we're aware of:
- You may see some repeat routes due to the schedule we load - for the entire year. There are flights with the same number, but in actual fact, they are different flights for summer/winter seasons.
- The schedule is not the most up to date. This is based off an early 2010 schedule.
We're looking to get the schedule updated, include the OW/ST alliances in future releases.