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Old Nov 11, 2014, 2:41 am
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Where does the KVS tool get its data and is KVS authorized to provide this data in the manner it is presented?

The tool is known to access a variety of web sites, many in a manner that is not authorized. Please see the next section of this Wiki for a list of sites believed to be accessed and their data access policies (where known).

Additionally, under some conditions the tool appears to access sites via a KVS-operated back end. This means that the tool is not just a 'web browser' that runs via a user's machine. No detailed public information is available about how this works or whether any of this back-end access is authorized.

Websites KVS Accesses and their relevant Terms of Use

http://book.aircanada.com/pl/AConlin...verrideServlet
http://book.aircanada.com/pl/AConlin...PreviewServlet
https://book.aircanada.com/pl/AConli...verrideServlet
https://www.aircanada.com
Terms of Use:
http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/legal/notice.html
Use of our web site for any other purpose, including any commercial use or purpose, is expressly prohibited.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you agree that, in using or accessing our website, you shall not commit or participate in any of the following acts or actions, each of which is expressly prohibited under this User Agreement:
directly or indirectly, use or access, or encourage, solicit, permit, facilitate, aid, assist or abet, including, but not limited to, the selling, licensing, distribution or provision to any person of any means that permit, the use or access, or agree to provide the use or access, of our website through any manual process or any automatic, electronic or technical device, including but not limited to automated scripts, robots, crawls, screen scrapers, web "bots", deep-links, indexes, spiders, click-spams, macro programs, or any other device, program, software, system, algorithm, methodology or technology, now known or hereinafter discovered, that performs the same or a similar function, in order to, without limitation: "data mine"; "screen scrape"; data process; access, extract, copy, distribute, aggregate or acquire information; generate impressions or clicks; input or store information; search or generate searches; or manipulate or monitor any portion or content of our website;

http://data.flight24.com/flights/
Terms of Use:
http://www.flightradar24.com/terms-and-conditions
Websites information and Services are provided for personal, non-commercial use only. Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on Flightradar24s web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

Modify or copy the materials;
Use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Flightradar24's web site;
Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
Transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Flightradar24 at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

http://data.seatexpert.com/tpi/find.php
Terms of Use:

http://plane.lan.com/cgi-bin/recibo_...bo_eticket.cgi
Terms of Use:
http://www.lan.com/en_us/sitio_perso...-use/about-us/
You may use the information on our site solely for non-commercial purposes, and any use or modification of the website contents is not permitted.

http://reservations.usairways.com/Default.aspx
Terms of Use:
http://reservations.usairways.com/en-US/aboutus/site_usage_policy.html
Content may be used for non-commercial personal use only, and you agree not to modify, copy, transmit, distribute, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, sell or otherwise transfer any information, software, products or services obtained from the Site without prior written permission from US Airways. You agree not to use any automatic device, manual process, or scraping to monitor or copy the Site or the content contained therein for any purpose without US Airways prior written permission. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site.

https://book.austrian.com/app/fb.fly
Terms of Use:
http://www.austrian.com/Info/LegalRegulations/WebsiteTerms.aspx?sc_lang=en&cc=AT
2. Proprietary rights
All trademark rights, copyrights, database rights and other intellectual property rights to the contents of the Austrian-website, (as well as the organization and layout of the website), together with the underlying software code rest, either with Austrian or with its licensors. You may not, either in whole or in part, copy, modify, distribute or use or reproduce in other form contents of the Austrian-website, or the underlying software code, without the prior written consent of Austrian.

3. Permissible use
All Austrian-website online services (including the booking machine) are provided solely for the purpose of enabling you to check the availability of goods or services relating to your journey (the timetable, for example), make legitimate reservations, use our online check-in or transact other business with suppliers. You may only use the website in accordance with these terms and conditions and for the legally permitted purposes described above. In particular, you indicate your agreement to the following:
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3.5 You may not reproduce information from the Austrian-website for commercial purposes. This also includes providing prices for Austrian flights on another website or another online server. In particular you may not copy, distribute, in other way use or reproduce discarded content from the Austrian-website with the help of 'robots', other search machine technologies or through other automatic mechanisms.

https://booking.qatarairways.com/qri...Booking.action
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https://book.tam.com.br/TAM/dyn/air/...ng/retrievePNR
Terms of Use:

https://classic.checkmytrip.com/plne...ievePNR.action
Terms of Use:
(D) not to use any automated system or software to extract data from the Application, Documents or Services for commercial purposes (such as screen scraping);

https://en.aegeanair.com
Terms of Use:

https://eservice.evaair.com
Terms of Use:

https://flymas.mobi/itravel/viewBooking.xhtml
Terms of Use:

https://fly.rj.com/MyBookings/Home/EN/Default.aspx
Terms of Use:

http://skyvector.com/airport/
Terms of Use:

https://m.aeroflot.ru/b/info/pnr/load
Terms of Use:

https://mm.alitalia.com/GB_EN/booking/apvsearch.aspx
Terms of Use:

https://mobile1.emirates.com/myb/review.xhtml
Terms of Use:

https://myb.s7.ru/getMyBooking.action
Terms of Use:

https://mytripandmore.com/Itinerary.aspx
Terms of Use:
https://mytripandmore.com/TermsAndConditions.aspx
Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, you may not:
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9. use any "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, software, program, algorithm, routine, methodology, or any manual process or functionality:
...to monitor, assemble, analyse, index, copy, transmit, distribute, transfer, or link to any of the pages, data, materials, or content available on the Site,

https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/PilotWe...yICAOAction.do
Terms of Use:

https://prefunds.aa.com/refunds/receipt
https://www.aa.com/reservation/findReservationSubmit.do
Terms of Use:
https://www.aa.com/i18n/footer/siteUsage.jsp
Intellectual property notifications
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D. American Airlines owns or uses by permission all software contained on the Site, including without limitation all HTML code and Active X controls. Copyright and other laws and international treaty provisions protect this software. The law expressly prohibits any modification, redistribution, or reproduction of the software, and such actions could result in severe civil and criminal penalties. American Airlines will seek and support prosecuting violators to the maximum extent possible.
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M. Monitor or copy any Content by using any manual process, or any robot, spider, or other automatic device, without first obtaining American Airlines' prior written consent.

https://raw.github.com/opentraveldat...i_airlines.csv
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https://secure.jetairways.com/PlatformID/Identify.aspx
Terms of Use:

https://tickets.airtran.com/SeatAvailability.aspx
Terms of Use:
http://www.southwest.com/html/about-...ons/index.html
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You may not copy, display, distribute, download, license, modify, publish, re-post, reproduce, reuse, sell, transmit, use to create a derivative work, or otherwise use the content of this site for public or commercial purposes without our express written permission. Nothing on this site shall be construed to confer any grant or license of any intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, by implication, or otherwise.

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You may not use any deep-link, page-scrape, robot, crawl, index, spider, click spam, macro programs, Internet agent, or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology which does the same things, to use, access, copy, acquire information, generate impressions or clicks, input information, store information, search, generate searches, or monitor any portion of the Southwest Airlines sites or Company information.
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You may not disguise the origin of information transmitted to, from, or through the Southwest Airlines sites. You may not circumvent any measures implemented by Southwest Airlines aimed at preventing violations of the Use Agreement. You may not violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion header.

When you use the Southwest Airlines sites or Company information for an authorized purpose, you must include all proprietary notices without changing, hiding or deleting them.

You may not engage in any conduct that is, or that Southwest Airlines deems to be, in violation of this Use Agreement.

https://wftc3.e-travel.com
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https://wtrweb.worldtracer.aero/WorldTracerWeb/pax.do
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https://www121.jal.co.jp/JmbWeb/JR/S...MileCalc_en.do
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https://www4.thy.com/mybookings/ETDisplay.tk
https://www4.thy.com/mybookings/getPnr.tk
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https://www.airberlin.com/en-DE/cockpit
Terms of Use:

https://www.airfrance.fr/cgi-bin/AF/...chPnrAction.do
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https://www.alaskaair.com/booking/reservationlookup
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https://www.bookonline.saudiairlines...verride.action
https://www.bookonline.saudiairlines...verride.action
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https://www.britishairways.com/trave...g/public/en_gb
Terms of Use:

https://www.checkmytrip.com/CMTSERVLET
Terms of Use:
https://www.checkmytrip.com/cmt/apf/...&SITE=NCMTNCMT
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https://www.delta.com/mytrips/findPnr.action
http://www.delta.com/ism/SeatMapDisplay.action
http://www.delta.com/shared/components/blank.jsp
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https://www.finnair.com
Terms of Use:

https://www.flysas.com
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https://www.iberia.com/web/retrievePNR.do
Terms of Use:

https://www.lot.com
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https://www.lufthansa.com
Terms of Use:
http://www.lufthansa.com/online/port...d=2016866&l=en

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...You may not, either in whole or in part, copy, modify, distribute or use or reproduce in other form contents of the Lufthansa-website, or the underlying software code, without the prior written consent of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
https://www.routehappy.com/
Terms of Use:

https://www.swiss.com
Terms of Use:

https://www.tripforyou.net/t4u/PTopAction.do
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https://www.tripple.jp
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https://www.united.com/web/en-US/app...n/default.aspx
Terms of Use:
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https://www.viewtrip.com/GetItin.aspx
Terms of Use:

https://www.virginamerica.com/book/ow/a1/
Terms of Use:

https://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/g...ndBooking.next
Terms of Use:

https://www.virtuallythere.com/new/reservations.html
Terms of Use:

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/
Terms of Use:

http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi
Terms of Use:

http://www.airframes.org/fleet/
Terms of Use:

http://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_H...oking-now.html
Terms of Use:

http://www.flightradar24.com/
Terms of Use:

http://www.FlightStats.com/go/Flight...ingByFlight.do
http://www.FlightStats.com/go/Flight...tusByFlight.do
Terms of Use:

http://www.flightview.com/TravelTool...eryResults.asp
http://www.flightview.com/TravelTools/viewairport.asp
Terms of Use:

http://www.gcmap.com/airport/
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui
Terms of Use:
http://www.gcmap.com/faq/using
Q: May I use the Great Circle Mapper's maps on my web page?
A: You may use maps generated by the Great Circle Mapper on non-commercial web pages (q.v. commericial use below) so long as you do not profit from them and you include the following credit on pages which include maps:
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Q: May I use the Great Circle Mapper's maps for commercial sites or publications?
A: Please write to Karl L. Swartz regarding terms for commercial use of the maps.

http://www.iata.org/about/members/Pa...line-list.aspx
Terms of Use:
http://www.iata.org/Pages/terms.aspx
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http://www.itn.net/cgi/get
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http://www.kenya-airways.com/kqbook.aspx
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http://www.myairlines.ru
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http://www.qantas.com.au/regions/do/dyn/checkmytrip
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http://www.seatexpert.com/multiple_results.php
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http://www.seatguru.com/ajax/findseatmap.php
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http://www.seatmaestro.com/airlines-...eckmytrip.html
http://www.seatmaestro.com/themes/de...te_airline.php
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http://www.seatplans.com/ajax/Airline
http://www.seatplans.com/ajax/airports-and-city
http://www.seatplans.com/find-and-compare/
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Old May 11, 2011 | 7:26 pm
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Originally Posted by AceTracer
Ok, sorry for not being clear enough.

What I mean is, let's say I want to figure out how much it costs in cash and points to fly from HKG to JFK using BAEC miles, including fees.

If I put that into BA.com, it will only give me HKG-LHR-JFK for 60,000 BA miles and $500.

I know for a fact that I can fly other routes, like HKG-NRT-JFK on JAL or HKG-AMM-JFK on RJ for 25,000 BA miles and whatever the YQ might be. However, I can't find what that is on BA.com because it won't give me partner airlines unless BA doesn't fly that route.

What I already know is that KVS Tool will give me award availability for RJ and JL, but my question is will it also tell me how many miles and YQ it'd cost. I'm guessing at this point that BA doesn't make this information available publicly.
No. First, KVS just takes the data directly from the BA and Qantas websites, so you'll see the same flight award inventory information. However on BA.com you'll see the miles+cash options and KVS doesn't show that.
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Old May 12, 2011 | 12:47 pm
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Originally Posted by AceTracer
Ok, sorry for not being clear enough.

What I mean is, let's say I want to figure out how much it costs in cash and points to fly from HKG to JFK using BAEC miles, including fees.

If I put that into BA.com, it will only give me HKG-LHR-JFK for 60,000 BA miles and $500.

I know for a fact that I can fly other routes, like HKG-NRT-JFK on JAL or HKG-AMM-JFK on RJ for 25,000 BA miles and whatever the YQ might be.

What I already know is that KVS Tool will give me award availability for RJ and JL, but my question is will it also tell me how many miles and YQ it'd cost. I'm guessing at this point that BA doesn't make this information available publicly.
To further clarify, there are 3 separate components:
  1. Award Availability, which is relevant to the KVS Tool.

  2. Mileage Cost Information, which is static and readily available on the BAEC website at
  3. Taxes/Surcharges, which can be calculated/estimated via ITA.
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Old May 14, 2011 | 10:18 am
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Re-running queries -- how easy for multiple trips?

I've tried searching for this info, but can't find the answer either on the KVS web site or here -- apols if I've missed it.

I'm looking for *A reward availability from Europe to North America (west coast) on a small number of dates this summer. Currently unavailable, but of course that may change...

There are of course many ways of getting to the west coast. Can I set up the various segments of possible interest and save into My Trips, and then run all the searches with a small number of clicks/key strokes each day; or will I have to run each segment/search separately? The latter will be tedious (though better than ANA direct of course), and might make it worth paying the extra money for award nexus.

thanks.

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Old May 14, 2011 | 10:53 am
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Originally Posted by Leedsflyer
I've tried searching for this info, but can't find the answer either on the KVS web site or here -- apols if I've missed it.

I'm looking for *A reward availability from Europe to North America (west coast) on a small number of dates this summer. Currently unavailable, but of course that may change...

There are of course many ways of getting to the west coast. Can I set up the various segments of possible interest and save into My Trips, and then run all the searches with a small number of clicks/key strokes each day; or will I have to run each segment/search separately? The latter will be tedious (though better than ANA direct of course), and might make it worth paying the extra money for award nexus.

thanks.
Yes you can save your award searches into MyTrips, however, you will have to run each one individually by double clicking on it and then hitting search.
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Old May 14, 2011 | 10:59 am
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Originally Posted by jasonvr
Yes you can save your award searches into MyTrips, however, you will have to run each one individually by double clicking on it and then hitting search.
Thanks :-(

How many segments can I put into an award search?
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Old May 14, 2011 | 11:41 am
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Originally Posted by Leedsflyer
Thanks :-(

How many segments can I put into an award search?
Each search is a "leg", but the leg could involve multiple segments, I believe, as long as the award engine supports it. I just used UA and I tests HKG-LAX and I can see the connections. I believe the *A search (which uses ANA) will do the same but it is down for maintenance right now so I can't test.

Note that there is no way to force or only display a specific connection point when the leg contains multiple segments.
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Old May 15, 2011 | 12:25 am
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DONE4 Fare ex-KRT

There appears to be a discrepancy between the fare showing in KVS and the fare shown on the Oneworld booking engine

KVS
[KVS Availability Tool 6.1.2/Diamond - Sabre: Fares/DotRes/AU]
Code:
KRT  Khartoum Civil SD [HSSS]
KRT  Khartoum Civil SD [HSSS]
SUN  15 Jan 2012 | SUN  01 Apr 2012 | RTW | Business

Carrier    From    To    Fare      Cur                      Fare Basis/TD
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  -------------
RJ         KRT     KRT      4684   USD                      DONE4
Oneworld
Price

Travellers Fare Taxes
1 Adult(s) x (5,496.00 + 523.87) = 6,019.87 USD

total price for all travellers 6,019.87 USD
Any ideas why?
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Old May 15, 2011 | 1:27 am
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Having a bit of a senior moment.. In trying to search for upgrade availability on UA flights, where can I go to see NF/NC? Can I see specific numbers, or will I just get FS+ CS+ YS+?
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Old May 15, 2011 | 1:42 am
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Originally Posted by FriendlySkies
Having a bit of a senior moment.. In trying to search for upgrade availability on UA flights, where can I go to see NF/NC? Can I see specific numbers, or will I just get FS+ CS+ YS+?
Change the method to X1

Edit: To be more clear (i.e. less brief ), Use the Awards/Upgrades tab and set the method as ITA: Awards-Upgrades/X1 which will bring up the UA class availability including NC/NF/NY/XC/XF

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Old May 15, 2011 | 10:28 am
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Datasource Error:

"(Incorrect input Parameters/Cookies Disabled/Engine Error)"

Hi FT and KVS,

When I check flight "Fares" from MXP-HKG on July 1st I get this error. I have not disabled cookies to my knoweldge.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Bege

Edit: Also I notice ths POS is greyed out on "RU"

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Old May 15, 2011 | 12:24 pm
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Originally Posted by begemot
"(Incorrect input Parameters/Cookies Disabled/Engine Error)"

Hi FT and KVS,

When I check flight "Fares" from MXP-HKG on July 1st I get this error. I have not disabled cookies to my knoweldge.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Bege

Edit: Also I notice ths POS is greyed out on "RU"
Same error here. Switching the method off of Galileo works though.
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Old May 15, 2011 | 12:57 pm
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Originally Posted by begemot
"(Incorrect input Parameters/Cookies Disabled/Engine Error)"

Hi FT and KVS,

When I check flight "Fares" from MXP-HKG on July 1st I get this error. I have not disabled cookies to my knoweldge.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Bege

Edit: Also I notice ths POS is greyed out on "RU"
Originally Posted by jasonvr
Same error here. Switching the method off of Galileo works though.
The [Galileo: Fares/PSH] Method issue has now been resolved. Please restart the KVS Tool for the changes to take effect.
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Old May 15, 2011 | 4:30 pm
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Originally Posted by jasonvr
Each search is a "leg", but the leg could involve multiple segments, I believe, as long as the award engine supports it. I just used UA and I tests HKG-LAX and I can see the connections. I believe the *A search (which uses ANA) will do the same but it is down for maintenance right now so I can't test.

Note that there is no way to force or only display a specific connection point when the leg contains multiple segments.
ok, thanks.

Since ANA doesn't find all appropriate routings, I'll need to search segment by segment, so I've just gone with a set of imacros for firefox to directly interface to the ANA tool, and I can then search 12 legs in a single ANA search. A bit clunky but probably still faster than individually clicking on all the saved searches in KVS. I'll see how I get on with that approach. (Award Nexus would be ideal, but rather expensive for the number of searches I estimate I'll need to do.)
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Old May 15, 2011 | 6:49 pm
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Originally Posted by pandaperth
There appears to be a discrepancy between the fare showing in KVS and the fare shown on the Oneworld booking engine

KVS
[KVS Availability Tool 6.1.2/Diamond - Sabre: Fares/DotRes/AU]
Code:
KRT  Khartoum Civil SD [HSSS]
KRT  Khartoum Civil SD [HSSS]
SUN  15 Jan 2012 | SUN  01 Apr 2012 | RTW | Business

Carrier    From    To    Fare      Cur                      Fare Basis/TD
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  -------------
RJ         KRT     KRT      4684   USD                      DONE4
Oneworld

Any ideas why?


It's a SDG currency issue. The IATA ROE is currently set to 3.10, while the BSP/interbank rate is around 2.67. The Base Fare is 14 700 SDG:

[KVS Availability Tool 6.1.2/Diamond - Routing Rules: KRT-KRT/RJ/DONE4/14700 SDG]
Code:
KRTKRT-RJ 15MAY11      *RULE DISPLAY*     TARIFF 0346 RULE 3015 
* ADD APPLICABLE TAX * FED INSP FEES *                          
   -FARE BASIS         SDG       NUC                PTC  FT  GI 
DONE4           R  14700.00   4741.92               ADT  EX  RW 
DONE4/CH25      R  11025.00   3556.44               CNN  EX  RW 
DONE4/IN90      R   1470.00    474.18               INF  EX  RW 
BOOKING CODES        D                                          
INDUSTRY FARE TYPE - BRW - BUSINESS CLS AROUND THE WORLD        
MPM - RW           NO ROUTING FOUND
---------------------------------------------------------------
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Old May 15, 2011 | 7:45 pm
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Originally Posted by KVS
It's a SDG currency issue. The IATA ROE is currently set to 3.10, while the BSP/interbank rate is around 2.67. The Base Fare is 14 700 SDG:

[KVS Availability Tool 6.1.2/Diamond - Routing Rules: KRT-KRT/RJ/DONE4/14700 SDG]
Code:
KRTKRT-RJ 15MAY11      *RULE DISPLAY*     TARIFF 0346 RULE 3015 
* ADD APPLICABLE TAX * FED INSP FEES *                          
   -FARE BASIS         SDG       NUC                PTC  FT  GI 
DONE4           R  14700.00   4741.92               ADT  EX  RW 
DONE4/CH25      R  11025.00   3556.44               CNN  EX  RW 
DONE4/IN90      R   1470.00    474.18               INF  EX  RW 
BOOKING CODES        D                                          
INDUSTRY FARE TYPE - BRW - BUSINESS CLS AROUND THE WORLD        
MPM - RW           NO ROUTING FOUND
---------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you KVS
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