Question about Delta availabilty
 

Did a search on KVS, got the folllowing result
[KVS Tool 7.7.7/Diamond - Awards/DL-SkyTeam/US-S]

SFO San Francisco Intl CA US [KSFO]
PVG Shanghai PuDong CN [ZSPD]
SAT 13 Jun 2015 | 1 Seat

Carrier Flight From Depart To Arrive A/C St Award Availability
DL/CP 5738 SFO 11:30 SEA 13:46 E75 0 FA9
-> DL 589 SEA 14:29 PVG 17:55 +1 332 0 CA9


based on the FA9/CA9 I assumed there was upgrade availability. I called Delta and they claimed no upgrades (with Miles) were available.

I apologize in advance if this is obvious but any idea what I am doing wrong

Thanks

Those are Award (not Upgrade) Booking Classes.
Please consult the KVS Tool User Guide for more details.

Can't install v 7.7.8
 

I'm running on a MacBook under Crossover and all of a sudden the AC method stopped working telling me to install the latest version. I downloaded v7.7.8 and attempted to install - this process hangs part way through - have tried several times - sam result. HELP please.

I tried Crossover, recommended by KVS, but I came back to VirtualBox, IMHO the best program.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I agree Crossover is not ideal and KVS has several limitations when running under Crossover but it has been working adequately for a couple of years so there seems to an issue with the latest 7.7.8 release of KVS.

Please try the CrossOver Manual Installation procedure at http://Help.KVSTool.com/#Mac

If the issue, persists please provide a screenshot via http://Contact.KVSTool.com/

CrossOver is recommended for novice Mac users, as it is the easiest to install.
However, only VirtualBox/VMWare Fusion/Parallels Desktop provide 100% compatibility.

I abandoned Parallels, that I bought, when they decided to ask money for upgrade.
VirtualBox is free and very easy to install!

Update - finally got this install to work - for some reason the CrossOver screen showing the installation steps was blocking (i.e. covering up) the KVS screen to accept the licence agreement - by reducing the size of the CrossOver screen I was able to select the licence agreement and accept.

User error I guess - but this never happened when installing previous releases.

Note on others input - agreed - it's time to move to VirtualBox

Any coupons for members of this site?

?????????:confused:

No, but the annual Membership options do come with a 2-month bonus included.

Y;)u may wish to ask the proprietor of the software what it is that one gets for the price paid (it's called a 'donation') and whether the data is properly licensed from its sources. A quick review of the Wiki attached to this thread should tell you that at best most of the data provided by the 'tool' is obtained and presented without the consent of its owners.

Cant seem to download version 7.7.8 to Mac?
Version 7.7.5 keeps asking me to update?

Anyone has any idea how to fix this?

Please follow the Manual Installation procedure for CrossOver Mac users:
http://Help.KVSTool.com/#Mac

For those users who might provide feedback, I am grateful:

I am a former EF customer who left when UA no longer supported. Looking for option to automatically and routinely search for Saver F availability on UA/partners. Will KVS provide this?

Is there email or text notification if the auto search provides a "hit" on the seat availability?

Can one search for specific seats in a specific cabin?

Are you happy with your subscription?

Many thanks!

KVS does not do auto searches. You must search yourself, as often as you wish. You can save a search so that you don't have to enter all the parameters each time. You can't search for specific seats but you can view an active seat map.

I've been extremely happy with my subscription. For me, KVS gives me much more award availability for OneWorld carriers that EF can't provide.

For what you want I think www.awardnexus.com is a better fit than KVS.

Thanks for the info! Very helpful.

Can some one help me how to read KVS searches for Star Alliance?

I was searching for REP-SFO and the two line display shows CS+ YS+ in the first line and a blank on the second line. Does this mean the second line/segment has NO availability, or the SAME availability as the first line/segment?

Also for a given day I see award availability for SFO-REP (via ICN) but if I do a search for the same award ICN-REP there is no availability. This is somewhat confusing.


Carrier Flight From Depart To Arrive A/C St Award Availability
--------- ------ ---- -------- ---- -------- --- -- ------------------
OZ 738 REP 23:40 ICN 07:00 +1 321 CS+ YS+
-> OZ 212 ICN 16:40 +1 SFO 10:00 +1 77L

We're glad you are continuing to enjoy your KVS Tool Membership and thanks for answering 747FC's questions.

The [Awards/StarAlliance] Engine displays Award Availability on a Per-Trip basis, so the same Availability applies to all Segments.

If you would prefer to see Availability for each Segment, you can use the [Awards/AC-StarAlliance] Method instead.

What is the Flight #/Date?

@KVS - What have you done to get the issues with CrossOver resolved? I posted a question in the CodeWeavers forum as KVS shows as a gold supported application, & received the following reply:

"KVS Tool has not been ranked since CrossOver 13.0.1 and it's rank is "Unsupported", this means we do not regularly test this application in-house.

https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/kvs-availability-too
l

The best thing you can do is to contact our Support Team by filling out this form:

https://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/contact_us_form/#info

Our Support Team may be able to help but they will need to know what you did to get to the error you're seeing."


Since this is your program and CrossOver is the 1st method listed on your website for MAC users, it is YOUR responsibility to follow up with CodeWeavers to get a fix or else modify your program. It is entirely unsatisfactory to expect Macintosh users to have to pay even more for another emulator & then a Microsoft OS just because you can't write a native OSX application, but are quite happy to take our money!

I bought my diamond membership on Wednesday. Having tried to install kvstool on my 64-bit Win 7 OS however it keeps giving me error message at the end of the installation, saying "ole2.dll is either not designed to run on windows". Although the installation success still pops up after closing the error box. However when I rebooted my system and tried to open KVS it gives me the error " Component 'COMCTL32.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid"

Thanks

Change for Oracle VirtualBox that works very well and is very fast and free !

xihuang91 It works also for Windows, Linux and Solaris

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

We do liaise with CrossOver's technical teams and have opened the appropriate bug reports in their system, which they have acknowledged. However, we have no control over when (or if) they will actually fix them.

The bug is in the CrossOver/WINE system itself, so we are not in a position to fix it. There is no modification that can be done within the KVS Tool itself.

Indeed, 100% compatibility can be achieved by using Parallels Desktop / VMWare Fusion / VirtualBox / Apple Boot Camp instead.

Please try right-clicking the Setup file and selecting "Run As Administrator".

Alternatively, try using the [Portable Installation] option during the Setup.

Are you going to provide me with a FREE copy of Windows? There is no way I would ever pay for an OS that has spawned an entire industry to try and get around viruses etc that Microsoft is powerless to stop. The ONLY reason I use CrossOver for KVS is that there I don't have to worry about Windows vulnerabilities.

How about with the money you are making from Macintosh users that you employ someone who can write OS X code to develop a Mac specific product.

You don't need to worry about "Windows vulnerabilities" if you use one of the Virtual Machine solutions.

That probably won't happen for the same reason that the data KVS uses is n;)t authorized -- it cuts into the pr:ofits.

It is now installed. I successfully registered yesterday and how long it takes to process my permanent registration. Meanwhile I cannot log on to mobile companion given the temp user and pw in my email.

Hi friends,

I just renewed my KVS availability tool Gold membership. I am planning a trip to London and India with my partner, and wanted to check on flight availability (revenue seats) not award.

I was under the impression that the tool still had the fare availability functionality, i.e. to show fare classes and available seats (revenue seats not award)

Is this the case? Or I am out of luck?

Thank you,
wonderfultravels

Jesus Christ! What a load of rubbish!!! What a ridiculous claim!!! You have exceeded every misinformation you gave ever before...
People, please ignore that claim! Running windows (or any other platform) in virtual environment, does not remove any vulnerabilities!!! They are there the same way as they would be on bare metal...

Your Permanent Membership Credentials have now been issued via e-mail.
Please let us know if you do not receive them.

Regular Flight Availability is currently accessible via the KVS Tool Mobile Companion.
Please check your E-Mail Inbox for details.

Is there an issue with time-frame (how many months ahead?) in award availability for A3?

I use Awards/AC-Star Alliance and for December i get no availability, even though i check through M&B website and i see that there are available seats (i checked many routes domestic+international, e.g. CHQ-ATH, BRU-ATH

Please try using the [Awards/NH-StarAlliance] Method:

[KVS Tool 7.7.9/Diamond - Awards/NH-StarAlliance/JP-ANA]

Have a problem and want to know if I'm the only one. Searching for HKG-BOS June 6th using JL method. Response is Data Source Error [RD-3]. Then this:(Note: June 6th is a Saturday and the flight CX 812 does operate on Saturdays.) Same thing happens for June 8, -- error report says that I requested June 15th. June 9th works correctly. But then the problem recurs when I request June 11; the system tells me that there's no flight on June 18th. The date seems fine using the BA method, only a problem using JL.

Any ideas, anyone?

For 6 June, if you set the return date to "+1 Day" instead of "Default," the flight will show up since BOS-HKG is operated then. JL always forces a round-trip search, so you have to make adjustments when a route is operated less then daily.

Is the Alaska search down?

Thanks for the report.

Please download KVS Tool V7.8.0 to resolve this issue.

still have not receive the permanent code?
 

My 5 days temp code expired, and have not yet receive the permanent code :(

We have just sent another copy to you via E-Mail -- please check your Spam/Junk folder and contact us if you still have not received it.

got it thanks