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Temporary Registration Code
 

This is probably a nit but seems like something that should be easily solved. When I signed up for the KVS tool I got a message that said:
Your request has been successfully submitted:
Your Temporary Registration Code has been sent to you via e-mail at the end of the online Contribution process, so you can start using the KVS Tool right away.

At the end of the payment process I got two emails, the first thanking me for my order and indicating additional information would follow in a separate email. The second again thanked me and said I should proceed to the Registration Wizard.

Neither of these emails contains the Temporary Registration Code so I really cannot start using the tool right away. Now I can wait 24 hours for the permanent code but why is there a big bold statement saying I will get a temporary code when I don't? Perhaps they used to send this code and don't any more or perhaps they have never sent it but it would seem a minor fix to remove these statements if they are not going to include the temporary code.

Welcome to the KVS Tool!

The Temporary Registration Code was issued automatically -- please check your Spam/Junk folder.

I have to apologize. I assumed when I received the first two mails there was no need to check my spam folder. But I did and the temporary registration was there. Well done!!

The NH method errors with
Data source error [SF]:
"Please select a city or airport from the list."

This [Awards/NH-StarAlliance] Method issue has now been resolved.

Please download KVS Tool V7.8.9 and try again.

A qestion for KVS team or anyone familiar with KVS tool.

I don't have KVS tool and before plunging into it. Do they offer demo like expertflyer.

Basically I want a possibilty of searching all fares available from a particular origin without entering a destination.

Airlines have so many fares available that's impossible to see which city in a country could be offered for cheap by airline. Example. Instead of searching AUH to JFK. Can we just reach AUH to all of USA etc or a continent like Europe etc.

Sometimes I fly for the heck of flying and seeing a new place. Would love to see which cities are offered for cheap.

I believe this is well beyond the scope of KVS or any service. There could be thousands of published fares between one origin and even just a few destinations.

That's not the point of KVS, which has as one of its main functions the scraping/mining/accessing (whatever you want to call it) of various websites to show availability in various fare classes.

What you are talking about you'll find with something like www.google.com/flights. Then click on Explore Destinations, and you'll find the lowest fares from your home airport(s).

I have a question regarding the Mult-Day search tool. The following are the instructions:
I'm a bit confused with these instructions regarding search multiple dates. When setting the desired date range "+ [number of days]" in the Power Search button, the tool doesn't appear to give the available flights for the selected range. For example, in an Awards/Upgrades inquiry for oneworld (BA), if I select 10 Sep 2015 + 7 days, the tool will only give me the first available date with a seat in a particular class. So, if a seat is available on Sept 10, that's the only result it gives me. I would have to press Start again (or the down arrow) to find the next available day with an award seat.

Please tell us that there's a way to have the tool give you a week's worth of seats on one screen. Having to wait to press the Start button or down arrow again after each day does NOT seem to qualify as a "multi-day" search. I'd have to sit at the computer and wait 5 minutes to search for 7 days of availability. That would be no different than going to BA's website and clicking each day and waiting for the results. I was thinking I would see a monthly calendar with the available days, like with United's website.

Also, how do you save your search results? The Save button only saves the search inquiry.

Indeed, all tools/services require a specific city pair to be entered, as there could be over 1 000 000+ published Fares from a single origin point.

That is correct -- the [Power Search] function is used to automatically locate Award Availability in desired Class(es) across a Multiple date range (of up to 31 days).

If the desired Award Seats are already available on a specific date, then there is no need to use the [Power Search].

No, the [Next Day] button would simply check the following date (which may or may not have the desired Award Availability). The [Power Search] button would actually locate Award Availability (which could be days or weeks away).

[Power Search] is not an [Award Calendar] function -- it is used to automatically locate hard-to-find Awards.

If you would simply like to compare Award Availability across multiple dates, you can launch multiple instances of the KVS Tool and launch multiple searches for the desired date(s) simultaneously.

The [Award Calendar] function is currently supported by the [Awards/AC-StarAlliance] Method for *A Awards.

You can save a copy of the results in text format by clicking the [Print] button.

You do know that this is exactly what KVS is doing in the background? It simply logs in to BA.com using your supplied details , performs the searches and scrapes the results to display. (Which is in violation of BA.com T&C's which could be used to terminate your BA account...)

If you're wanting to look for BA award availability, the BA.com calendar view (NOT the award map calendar) would be much quicker and accurate.

To clarify, BA.com Calendar View only supports BA's own flights and not the 21 OneWorld member carriers that can be searched via the [Power Search] in the KVS Tool.

Definitely. For many searches also consider QF, which also offers a calendar view and has better coverage than BA (e.g. CX and JL, as well as their own flights). Just be aware that the results may include QF partners that are not in oneworld.

BA award search covers all oneworld carriers, including CX and JL. But agree that between AA, BA, QF (and JL for CX sometimes) it is relatively easy to search for oneworld award space yourself for free.

Yes, but not in the calendar view, which is what your reply to Ducati highlighted. ;) QF probably has the most useful calendar view at the moment.

Absolutely. BA is where I usually start, unless I know that AA and BA are my only options (in which case AA.com is easiest).

@KVS
Thank you for your prompt and detailed replies. But, I have to say that I feel like I was duped with this "new" multi-day search feature. If I search for seven days and on the first day there's an available seat, then the multi-day search tool doesn't actually search multiple days. Honestly, this tool is only slightly better than searching on BA and no better than QF's search engine. And having to open seven or eight instances of the tool and manually enter every single date is cumbersome and defeats the purpose of a paid tool that should conduct multi-day searches and return with multi-day results.

I understood how KVS was extracting the information. But, it didn't cross my mind that a paid tool would be so simplistic in its delivery. Is it unreasonable to assume that the tool should search seven days (each day in sequential order) and return those results in a nice little table? Why go through the trouble of forcing the user to manually open seven instances of the tool? There's no way to have the tool to automatically search every day of the week? That doesn't seem reasonable.

It finds the first instance of award availability over a 7 day period. Expert Flyer does the same thing over just a 3 day period, but doesn't show it in a 'nice little table". It just shows it in a linear fashion, one day at a time, but it does show availability over the 3 day period. For what you pay KVS you can't expect a highly sophisticated tool. Perhaps some other sites do this ???

You're welcome.

If there is already desired Availability on a specific date, then there is no need to use the [Power Search].

The [Power Search] function is designed to make it easy to locate difficult-to-locate Awards, not provide a long list of easily-locatable ones (which can be found using a regular search).

A single day search can return as many as 100 different flight options. Combining the results across a 31-day period would result in "a nice little table" with 3000+ flights.

As noted previously, the [Award Calendar] is a completely different function and is currently supported by some Engines (including [Awards/AC-StarAlliance]).

If you would like to work with multiple dates simultaneously, you would need to open the corresponding number of instances of the KVS Tool.

KVS been a long subscriber and a fan of your tool but have had to recently stop using it due to moving over to a Mac. Yes I know I can use crossover but that just adds on cost and effort.

Do let me know if you ever do a mac version.

That may be so.

At what price point (A) x years on the market (B) x average number of paying customers (C) would it be reasonable to expect a moderately sophisticated tool? We know A and B. Even very conservative assumptions about C yield dollar figures that would pay for many, many hours of coding and product development.

Nice little table or a run-on sentence...doesn't really matter as long as the results are on a single screen. EF does return the results in a manner that makes sense.

And if memory serves me correctly, Expert Flyer shows availability over seven days, not three. You choose a date and select +/- three days. Maybe it's changed; I haven't used it in a very long time.

Yes and a single day search can return as little as one flight. I would surmise that a single flight option is far more common than a result that had 100+ flights. Can't see why a paid tool couldn't limit the search results to something like ten per day for a seven-day period. That's only seventy. Not unreasonable at all.

^ It's not like KVS just came out.

See post #535

I've searched buit cannot find an answer.
What do codes L & C mean in this:

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Please see http://Help.KVSTool.com/#Interpreting

I just caught that part. Has anyone's account ever been shut down? My BA login and password stopped working on the tool, so I had to create another acct. This KVS tool is worse than I originally thought.

It has been reported that "excessive use" of BA.com access will result in you being locked out. <redacted by moderator>

How do you get a refund? It doesn't work anymore on BA.

I just ran a BA search using KVS. It worked fine for me.

To be honest I never faced any issues too.

Indeed, the [Awards/BA-OneWorld] Method continues to function normally.

I have been using KVS for some time (thank you KVS!)

Just noticed that the BA oneworld award results are not right. Eg, searching HKG-LHR on 5 Dec 2015 returns 1 seat in CX 257, 1 in CX 239 and 3 in CX 253 all for business class, but calling BA and using BA website tells me there are no award business seats.

What is going on?

Thank you.

So I was directed by you to open multiple instances of the tool, which caused my BA account to be locked as a result of conducting too many searches within a given time frame. No such disclaimer or warnings about such possibilities of a frequent flyer account lockout due to activity encouraged by you was given. But, according to you, everything is fine. Okay. :td:

We're glad you're continuing to enjoy your KVS Tool Membership!

Discrepancies of that nature are not technically possible -- could you please provide screenshot(s)?

[KVS Tool 7.8.9/Diamond - Awards/BA-OneWorld]
http://i59.tinypic.com/fao5sp.png

Can you create a fare alert to notify us when a seat upon up on a certain flight in a certain paid or award class?

FYI for Mac users. Installed PlayonMAC after the Crossover Trial expired. So far so good.

unable to search for award availability on BA, it's saying there is a CAPTCHA verification required that is not supported