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Originally Posted by Ducati
(Post 25396773)
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.
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Originally Posted by Ducati
(Post 25396726)
@KVS
Thank you for your prompt and detailed replies.
Originally Posted by Ducati
(Post 25396726)
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.
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).
Originally Posted by Ducati
(Post 25396773)
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?
As noted previously, the [Award Calendar] is a completely different function and is currently supported by some Engines (including [Awards/AC-StarAlliance]).
Originally Posted by Ducati
(Post 25396773)
Why go through the trouble of forcing the user to manually open seven instances of the tool?
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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. |
Originally Posted by JIMCHI
(Post 25396850)
For what you pay KVS you can't expect a highly sophisticated tool.
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. |
Originally Posted by JIMCHI
(Post 25396850)
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 ???
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.
Originally Posted by KVS
(Post 25397815)
Originally Posted by Ducati
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?
As noted previously, the [Award Calendar] is a completely different function and is currently supported by some Engines (including [Awards/AC-StarAlliance]).
Originally Posted by IMH
(Post 25398787)
Originally Posted by JIMCHI
(Post 25396850)
For what you pay KVS you can't expect a highly sophisticated tool. Perhaps some other sites do this ???
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. |
Originally Posted by onlysuites
(Post 25398047)
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. I've searched buit cannot find an answer. What do codes L & C mean in this: http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/...psr13xp4nf.png |
Originally Posted by LifeTimeBronze
(Post 25402818)
I've searched buit cannot find an answer.
What do codes L & C mean in this: http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/...psr13xp4nf.png |
Originally Posted by nux
(Post 25392911)
Originally Posted by Ducati
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.
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. |
Originally Posted by Ducati
(Post 25407586)
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.
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How do you get a refund? It doesn't work anymore on BA.
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Originally Posted by Ducati
(Post 25412306)
How do you get a refund? It doesn't work anymore on BA.
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Originally Posted by JIMCHI
(Post 25412438)
I just ran a BA search using KVS. It worked fine for me.
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Originally Posted by JIMCHI
(Post 25412438)
I just ran a BA search using KVS. It worked fine for me.
Originally Posted by onlysuites
(Post 25413616)
To be honest I never faced any issues too.
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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. |
Originally Posted by KVS
(Post 25397815)
If you would like to work with multiple dates simultaneously, you would need to open the corresponding number of instances of the KVS Tool.
Originally Posted by Ducati
(Post 25412306)
How do you get a refund? It doesn't work anymore on BA.
Originally Posted by KVS
(Post 25414503)
Indeed, the [Awards/BA-OneWorld] Method continues to function normally.
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