That's not alway true. I booked SEA-YOW as a multi-city, SEA-YYZ/YYZ-YOW and the final fare quoted was combined, not added. I know this because the final fare was the same as SEA-YYZ itself (ie: YOW and YYZ were common-rated on this route from SEA and the booking engine handled this properly). However, you may need to try the various combinations (when I booked SEA-YVR/YVR-YOW then it the booking engine just added the two fares).

They seemed to have solved the problem here: Availability tool /AC "I" class / Star alliance seats

Let me give the true example. If the cheapest published fare on AC from YOW to YVR (one way) is (let us say) $450. Let us say that the one way fare from YOW to YYZ is $200, and the one way fare from YYZ to YVR is also $400. Let us say that Sabre does not give a particular YOW-YYZ-YVR flight combination automatically (as is often the case with aircanada.com) - let us say that one has to input the 2 segments manually. The aircanada.ca web site often adds up the fares (ie $200 + $400), rather than giving a combined fare of $450. Would either of the sabre access methods add the fare (eg $600) vs combining the fare (eg $450).

Let us now give the example for YOW-DEL. The cheapest return AC fare is $1150+ (in March). Let us say the return BOS-DEL fare on LX (a real example) next March is about $650. Let us say the return AC fare between YOW-BOS is $250. If I try to enter the segments manually, assuming those are combinable fares, would either of the Sabre access methods add the fares (ie $250 + $650), or give a combinable fare closer to $650, or give a combinable fare closer to $1150 (the return fare if one flies on AC - metal or codeshare - all the way).

Is there any way to see Copa (CM) reward availability?

And, related to that, any way to incorporate it into the Skyteam award search? (They are an associate member.) I've been told they use the same reward classes as CO...

It appears that CM is already a part of the SkyTeam Award Search, e.g.:

[KVS Availability Tool 2.9.2/Platinum - ITA: Awards/SkyTeam/JP-NWA]

As with most computer systems, the Tool will give you exactly what you ask it for, no more, and no less. If you ask for a YOW-DEL fare, it will give you exactly that -- a YOW-DEL fare ($1150). All fares are filed by the respective airlines (or their authorized agents), and the Tool does not modify those fares in any way.

Also, there is no such thing as "a combinable fare [(singular)] closer to $650", series of combinable fares. If you "try to enter the segments manually" and request fares for YOW-BOS and BOS-DEL separately, then you will get exactly that.

Is there a way we can view 'routings' or MPM info for a fare using KVS?

It is coming in the next version. Here is a sample:

[KVS Availability Tool 2.9.2/Platinum - WSpan: YTO-LON/AC/S0MSXL/262 USD]

Thanks, for the info.

What about my example of YOW-YYZ followed by YYZ-YVR? If the sabre access (or aircanada.ca) methods do not give me a particular combination of the 2 segments that I am interested in, would the combined fare (of the 2 segments) be equal to the single fare that is displayed for YOW-YVR?

Error from Sabre: Fares/ZUJ method
 

This morning, I started receiving an error message from the
'Fares/ZUJ' method when POS is set to SG or HK.
I get this same error no matter which From/To combinations I select:
Unable to Retrieve Fares:
"We cannot process your request."
"ASYNC query failed (rc eq 0). STBError: SABRE: FQ-VERIFY SELLING DAT
errno=05009999 reply=<SABRE: FQ-VERIFY SELLING DAT><"

It seems that when POS is set to NZ or AU, I can retrieve fare information.

Thanks,

It's a bug in the ZUJ engine, which manifests itself for a few hours on the last day of each month (like today)...

Hmmm.... not really, at least as far as I can tell.

I've been trying reward itin searches originating in MEX, PTY, and BOG and I can't pull any CM flights on a number of dates. The flights exist; but they don't show up on the reward search.

Is it possible that only some CM flights show? Looks to me like it might only be codeshares with CO. For example try a reward search to a non-US Copa destination out of PTY (e.g. PTY-BOG, PTY-MEX, PTY-GUA).

Incidentally, I have similar problems with AM international flights not originating or terminating in the US.

Again, your question is not very clear. AirCanada.ca displays flight combinations and then prices them. The Tool's [Fares] methods display fares, and not "combinations of segments". Fares from YOW-YYZ and YYZ-YVR are fully independent from YOW-YVR fares.

Yes, that's certainly possible.

This seems to work though:

[KVS Availability Tool 2.9.2/Platinum - ITA: Awards/SkyTeam/JP-NWA]
[KVS Availability Tool 2.9.2/Platinum - ITA: Awards/SkyTeam/JP-NWA]

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[[B][COLOR=blue][URL=http://KVS.UnrealNetwork.com/Tool/?R][KVS Availability Tool 2.9.2/Platinum -

All the screens above show a 2.9.2 revision. My version is 2.9.1 and when I try to do an update the system says I have the latest.