Globaliser

It is very likely that there are no valid combinations of fares that fly you in economy trans-Atlantic and in premium economy on the LHR-JNB-LHR sectors. If you really want to do this, you will have to buy two separate tickets: JFK-LHR-JFK and LHR-JNB-LHR.

raporot

Hello, im trying to get MAD-ITALY-SVO-LED with Alitalia codeshare FOR IT-RU legs with SU, but cant force ITA to make SVO-LED flight, or atleast with short connection in SVO.Can make only IT-SVO with SU but not IT-SVO-LED.
Its possibly to book only Italy-SVO or Italy-LED separate with SU, but i think must be the a way to book MAD-IT-SVO-LED, anybody can help?
Which command i need to put to force it? I tried with code-share AZ flight numbers but have 0 results.

Globaliser

Try az az o:su (and o:su az az on the inbound).

If you start in MAD and limit yourself to az o:su, that limits it to one AZ flight and one flight operated by SU. For MAD-IT-SVO-LED, you need three flights, hence my suggestion.

raporot

Thanks, how to force ITA to find exactly these flights? i tried put flight Numbers, but didnt find anything, maybe you know how to manage these?

Globaliser

For 27 October? In business class? Switch off the availability checker.

pecck

I've just begun using ITA Software from someone's suggestion. I reach United 1K by segments, not miles. Is there a way to search for maximum segments?

I've tried entering all US airport codes (https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=45539) in the destination field, but only get maximum one stop out of CLL. My local airport is IAH, a United hub.

I also put together the following fare codes if anyone wants to use them. It's everything that isn't business class or Basic Economy (N).

F BC=O|BC=A|BC=R|BC=Y|BC=B|BC=M|BC=E|BC=U|BC=H|BC=Q| BC=V|BC=W|BC=S|BC=T|BC=L|BC=K|BC=G

EDIT - learned a few things, I've added UA UA UA to my search. I know there is the following:

• CLL - IAH
• IAH - IAD
• IAD - BUF
• BUF - IAD
• IAD - IAH
• IAH - CLL

Nov. 12 and Nov 13. But I can't seem to find it using ITA Software and all airport codes. When using all airport codes do certain flights get filtered out for one reason or another? If I specifically enter BUF as the destination it shows up perfectly.

My objective it to find the lowest priced round trip out of CLL with the most stops. My concern is not all flights are showing in the search results.

bdsklar

easier this way F ~bc=b|j|etc

(or whatever basic economy is for that airline)

Peatisback

Anyone else have issues using ITA over the past few days? All my searches on several different laptops/browsers/searches have yielded and internal error message.

ChocolateFactory

No issues at all. Might be something specific to your searches?

Arctric

Same issue here, all searches result in an internal error message over the past two days. Any ideas?

Peatisback

Website now has this message:

"Internal Error" Bug Fixed
As of today, 2019-11-12, the recent "Internal Error" bug has been fixed for all known cases. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Searches have been working normally for me.

Keter

Hello! Is it possible to fix the cabin mapping for MU Q and P fares?

Q - business - shows as economy.
P - premium economy (shows as first).

fuyao

Easy answer, ITA (same as any search tool / website), has a timeout, meaning after a certain amount of time the results are presented, no matter if the search is done or not.
Otherwise you could just enter: Origin: NYC, destination: all airport codes worldwide, hit start and find the cheapest airfare there is.
It would take several days to find them all and lots of IT cost for ITA.

ITA is actually doing very well when it comes to time outs, I can tell you from my side, who uses Amadues and Sabre every day, that their time outs are much worse!
When you use Amadeus Master Pricer (AMAs tool to find the cheapest price for a given route+date) many times it doesnt find the cheapest because it returns results before it was able to search for that airline in the background. Example from yesterday: AMA MP did not show any fares with SK, even thou there were the cheapest airline.
Once I specified airline=SK it was suddenly able to find the lower fare.
And for product I'm paying for each request.

ITA is completely free and provides much better results
When you don't receive the result you wish to see, you need to "limit" the search with more categories to make sure ITA "has more time" to find the right one.
i.e. limiting by carrier, (UA+), 1 specifc date (no +-1), limiting by fare class, ... the more the better

fuyao

You cant use "f bc=w e t"
right format is: f BC=W | BC=E | BC=T
Also keep in mind when splitting a journey on ITA segment by segment you force ITA to ignore the marrried segment logic, so ITA shows you an itinerary that is possibly not bookable (saw this many times)
But if you let us know the dates I can easily check what is possible and what not (also in GDS)

currentjer

Long time lurking user, but the last two days, itamatrix has only been showing non-stop flights - and only showing connecting when I force a connection. Does anyone know what's going on?