It's funny though that I was able to get the fare rules but not the routing rules. Anyway, it worked this morning so no harm no foul. :)

Is there any way for KVS to access Z (international Y to J upgrade) and G (domestic Y to F upgrade) fare buckets on Delta?

Not at this time -- pls see KVS Tool User Guide for a list of currently-supported DL booking classes ...

Searching of OneWorld Awards now shows an error:

Error requesting data:
Response completed
Response completed

The QF OW Awards engine is not fully functional at the moment. It currently continues to work for most, but not all origins and destinations...

OK, thanks.

Does anyone know what fare booking class is used to travel on an award in First Class or Business Class on Singapore, Thai, United and Air Canada?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers.

If your question is restricted to United, then the answer is as follows:

First (Free) = XF/"R"
First (UG) = NF/"X"
Business (Free) = XC/"O"
Business (UG) = NC/"I"

Note that there are actually two booking classes for each award category.

That's because United's internal systems allow some special two character booking classes (XF/NF/XC/NC) which don't work in most other booking engines including large GDSs, e.g. Abacus, Amadeus, Apollo, Sabre and Worldspan and/or major web sites, e.g. Expedia, Orbitz and Travelocity.

In either case, it's almost impossible to look at inventory levels for these booking classes.

In the KVS Tool, award availability for all supported *A carriers is uniformly shown as FS (First Award), CS (Business Award), and YS (Economy Award).

If you want to know to which carrier-specific booking classes those map to, pls see KVS Tool User Guide.

[QUOTE=KVS;9433629]In the KVS Tool, award availability for all supported *A carriers is uniformly shown as FS (First Award), CS (Business Award), and YS (Economy Award).[QUOTE]

Believe the KVS Tool pulls *A award data from the NH website but does not translate that data to actual booking codes or quantify the actual number of seats available.

Any reason why the KVS Tool couldn't entertain a custom query which would return an enhanced display containing both revenue and award booking class availability? That seems to be what many of us really want!

While neither option is particularly useful to the majority of users, one can both translate the data into the actual booking classes, as well as determine the actual number of seats available by following the relevant instructions in the KVS Tool User Guide/FAQ.

Except for a very few carriers, regular and award booking classes do not mix and cannot be a part of the same query.

Amadeus Operational Info
 

I seem to be getting a blank page when I try to retrieve the Amadeus Operational Info.

Is that not working anymore?

OK, I'm lost.

I have downloaded the Tool.

I have requested the Registration Code and it turned up overnight.

Now what do I do ? I don't see anywhere on the KVS homepage where I "log in" or similar.

And, believe it or not, I've worked in IT all my career ..... !

Just open up the tool.

Click on the "Keys" icon at the top right.

Select the "Register/Verify Registration" option then paste in your Registration Code.

That feature is temporarily down, but it will be restored in the next version.