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A3 availability is again not working? I tried it several times and get the flight at the results but not the availability.

edit: resolved

I'm late hearing about BA accounts being locked as a result of using KVS Tool. Where can I find more information on this issue, and is it possible to unlock one's BA account? Thanks!

KVS tool not allowing BA searches. Just get constant Engine Velocity exceeded warnings

QR Award Availability appears to be quite limited on those routes, but it does exist.

You may wish to use the [Power Search] function in the KVS Tool if your dates are flexible:

[KVS Tool 7.9.1/Diamond - Awards/QF-OneWorld/AU-QFA-SP]

Actually just yesterday I noticed the following after further research:-

QF will not show QR availability ex-Australia even when available - clearly QF 'prefers' to offer QF, EK and CX - it will show QR on other routes (e.g. BKK-DOH)

BA will show availability ex-Australia if you search for 1 seat - when available usually 2 or more seats are actually available (e.g. as seen by CS2, ...). This seems to be a KVS/BA method quirk as if I use the BA site directly it works.

It seems availability has improved recently to/from Australia and DOH or there was some IT issue with searching previously. I have not tried to make a booking via AA - just searching for future reference when looking for options to/from Europe.

This should not be happening -- could you please provide specific example(s)?

I just re-tried one of my sample search dates for SYD-DOH and KVS/BA method is now showing correct availability if I select either 1 or 2 seats. It definitely was not 2 days ago - I did recently upgrade to KVS 7.9.1R2 but I can't recall if I was using the previous version or not. My apologies for any confusion.

But the good news is there is now availability on QR ex-Australia when a couple of weeks ago there seemed to be absolutely none.

Hopefully that's the same case with ex-NA. Few weeks ago there were tons of seats on almost every flight on every date now you can't get anything on any date.

Is the search for CX down?
Looks like even the simplest search, eg TPE_HKG on 26 Feb yields an error message of RD-1-4?

Yes, I'm having this problem as well, although with a slightly different error message.

Must be a KVS problem, because every time I start up KVS the first search goes ok. However when I try a second search it returns a "Datasource RD-1-1 Error Validating Javascript Engine error"

I've upgraded to Version 7.9.1.R2 but still encounter the same problem on two different computers.

When it is going to be fixed?

OneWorld search - no JAL
 

My apology if this has been asked before, but the OneWorld search, through QF, does it cover JAL? I've never seen JAL option displayed.

I also never gotten the BA option working correctly. Error message about 'exceeded velocity limit' or something along that line.

No, according to the FAQ, only BA shows JL.

Did you check American's web site or JL's own Web site (which seems to coincide with what BA shows)?

Don't expect KVS responding here...

BA has worked fine for me before, but I guess recent increased searches have also given me the "exceeded velocity limit" message.

downloaded the latest version and the setup won't run, just stalls and cursor spins , can't even stop the process through task manager

Anybody know what's up with KVS tools? I made a contribution and never got a temporary or permanent registration, even after a 10 days. Brief messages sent using the contact form was to no avail either.

Getting the error "USER DOES NOT HAVE TIMATIC WEB ACCESS"


Help?

This indicates an issue with your machine -- please consult the Troubleshooting section of the KVS Tool User Guide.

Your Temporary & Permanent Credentials have been issued to the e-mail address you have originally indicated. Please provide an alternative contact e-mail address so that we can re-send them there.

This issue has now been resolved -- please clear MSIE Cookies and restart the KVS Tool.

By way of a reminder:

I've been all sorted now. Thanks!

VELOCITY ERROR Uggghhh
 

Well I signed up for this tool specifically because it supported CX and JL, the region most drastically hurt by the upcoming AAdvantage changes. I was able to find some good info for my outbound FS awards, but now trying to search for the return on JL, I keep getting the Velocity Limits error and nobody it seems has any real fix. Someone mentioned seeing a CAPTCHA request but I do not have this.

First error comes up as "You have exceeded the Velocity Limits of the Awards/BA-OneWorld engine

If you hit ok , then you get
Data Source Error RW-1

Does anyone know how to fix this?????????????

The first part of the fix is to n;)t rely on tools that misuse data without the permission of the data sources. Have you tried searching on the BA site or other airline site directly?

<redacted by moderator> If the direct airline sites showed true OneWorld award availability, especially in the premium cabins, I would certainly use them. JAL for example will not let you search for 2 seats, but only 1. Tools get created for a reason.

So thanks for your input, but my question still stands.

Huh? KVS only shows the same as what the websites will show. I'm not sure about your JAL example, if I use the JAL website it shows the number of seats available in a cabin. That might disagree with what QF or BA says...and KVS will simply confirm that disagreement if you use different methods that scrape those sites.

KVS Tool simply screen scrapes information from various websites. It does not access anything that is not available for free through other means.

The Awards/BA-Oneworld engine simply logs on to BA.com and does an award search, parses the information and displays it. For at least the past year BA has introduced Captchas (possibly due to excessive automated use against their T&C's...) when doing many award searches in quick succession. But whenever a website changes how the information is displayed, or introduces different Captchas etc (possibly to stop this sort of automated screen scraping) until KVS Tool is updated to deal with it, certain functions may not work.

KVS Tool will display exactly what an award search on BA.com will show when using that option. Nothing more, nothing less.
The other KVS oneworld award searches use Qantas.com, Jal.com and CathayPacific.com.

You are paying for something that screen scrapes free information, that may automate login/searches and parse it in to a common format.

You're welcome!

We have now implemented a solution for the Velocity Exceeded/CAPTCHA Issues that were affecting the [Awards/BA-OneWorld] Method.

Please download KVS Tool V7.9.5 and contact us directly to provide feedback.

I am having issues again with A3 availabilty using KVSmobile.

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I have tried several times to download version 7.9.8 (because when I tried to search for AA upgrade availability I was told the version I downloaded about a month ago no longer supports this function). The setup file downloads, but then when I click on it it doesn't open. Worse, it then hangs around in my system, and if I've clicked on it several times there are several identical versions in the system. "End Process" and "End Proces Tree" in Windows Task Manager do not succeed in shutting it down. Is problem specific to my computer, or are others having similar experiences? Any suggestions about what I might do? (I have of course tried turning the machine on and off.)

Sorry to be raising what is in part a "support request" on this forum, but I tried using the online contact form and got a message that requests from aol.com cannot be honored. Also, while I'd appreciate any suggestions the KVS Tool management might have, I would also appreciate any suggestions or comments from other users.

Thanks so much for any suggestions anyone might have.

Please refer to the 1st solution in the Troubleshooting section of the KVS Tool User Guide.

What is error Data Source Error "R" and "TVLID" ? It says to try again later. I didn't see anything specific on this on the KVS website, but is it related to the note about JL MB Americas accounts? Is this being fixed?

The KVS 'tool' scrapes data from many sources that do not authorise that use (please see and feel free to update the wiki on this thread). When the data sources find out that 'method' often disappears and a new version of the software appears. There is no guarantee that any data you seek access to will remain available for any length of time. <redacted by Moderator>

This [Awards/QF-OneWorld] Engine issue has now been resolved -- please restart the KVS Tool and try again.

Any reason that I only get DL premium cabin availability?

[KVS Tool 7.9.8/Diamond - Awards/DL-SkyTeam/US]

Did you select the [Bus/First] option under [Cabin:] and/or set a [Filter] preference in-error?

Is there a way to check all now or you can only search by cabin?

For flights with 3 cabins, you can now check Y/W or W/C/F in the same search.

For flights with 2 cabins (Y/C or Y/F), you can continue to check for all Cabins in the same search.

I'm still getting the "R" and "TVLID" error. Restarted, rebooted, etc. still the same, any advice?

Please download KVS Tool V7.9.8.R3, which will resolve this issue.

By way of a reminder:

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