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deniah Nov 13, 2011 1:06 pm


Originally Posted by alanjrobertson (Post 17442168)
I appreciate the point you're attempting to make, KVS, but I disagree. In the practical way I want to use it - ie. searching for availability on a known route over a number of days - KVS is slower than ANA. TBH on my most recent award booking it was the free AwardNexus.com that did the trick, mainly as it can search multiple dates at once.

Anyway, we'll just need to agree to disagree - you've received my 2 months Diamond fee but I won't be renewing once this time is up.

same. also, the lack of native OSX support (i.e. without requiring parallel/vm solutions requiring $ 3rd party app) is disappointing.

KVS Nov 13, 2011 1:16 pm


Originally Posted by deniah (Post 17442705)
also, the lack of native OSX support (i.e. without requiring parallel/vm solutions requiring $ 3rd party app) is disappointing.

In practice, this hasn't been an issue for the many KVS Tool members, who continue to run the KVS Tool on their Macs every day:

http://Help.KVSTool.com/#Mac

http://www.KVSTool.com/Images/Screen..._CrossOver.gif

vbroucek Nov 13, 2011 1:38 pm


Originally Posted by deniah (Post 17442705)
same. also, the lack of native OSX support (i.e. without requiring parallel/vm solutions requiring $ 3rd party app) is disappointing.

I am known to be critical of KVS at times, but I do not agree with this. KVS is natively available for PC only and that's it. There are thousands of such software packages available on the market and people do not stop using them or spit on them just because they are not available for other platforms.

jmmlaguna Nov 15, 2011 10:34 pm

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Are there any active coupon codes for the annual membership? Thanks!!

jasonvr Nov 15, 2011 10:42 pm

Looks like Amadeus - Enhanced Seat Maps. I get the error:

"Error Retrieving Seat Map Data: Unable to initialize the Seat Map engine"

Hmmm...seems dependent on the query. Not all queries cause a problem, however clicking on any of the non-stop flights in the query below seem to give the error:

[KVS Availability Tool 6.7.0/Diamond - ITA: Awards-Upgrades/CO]
Code:

LAX  Los Angeles Intl CA US [KLAX]
IAH  Houston George Bush Intercnt'l TX US [KIAH]
FRI  09 Dec 2011

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CO        1614    LAX  00:30    IAH  05:35    738      F9 JN9 A9 ZN9 PN9 R4 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V0 W0 S0 T0 L0 K0 G0 N0 XN0 X0 ON0
CO        1410    LAX  06:40    IAH  11:53    738      F9 JN9 A9 ZN9 PN9 R2 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K0 G0 N9 XN0 X0 ON0
CO        1744    LAX  07:50    IAH  13:05    753      F9 JN9 A9 ZN9 PN9 R9 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X9 ON0
CO        1682    LAX  11:05    IAH  16:19    738      F9 JN9 A9 ZN9 PN9 R0 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K7 G7 N9 XN7 X0 ON0
CO        1565    LAX  11:51    IAH  17:05    738      F2 JN2 A2 ZN1 PN8 R0 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L0 K0 G0 N0 XN0 X0 ON0
CO        46      LAX  12:30    IAH  17:44    753      F9 JN9 A9 ZN9 PN9 R7 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X2 ON0
CO        1523    LAX  13:15    IAH  18:30    738      F9 JN9 A9 ZN9 PN9 R0 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L5 K0 G0 N5 XN0 X0 ON0
CO        53      LAX  14:40    IAH  19:48    753      F9 JN9 A9 ZN9 PN9 R4 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X9 ON0
CO        1046    LAX  17:15    IAH  22:21    753      F9 JN9 A9 ZN7 PN9 R0 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X9 ON0
CO        1694    LAX  19:15    IAH  00:21 +1  738      F1 JN1 A1 ZN0 PN9 R0 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X9 ON0
CO        1007    LAX  09:30    IAH  14:44    752      F0 JN0 A0 ZN0 PN5 R0 RN0 O0 IN0 I0 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K1 G1 N9 XN1 X0 ON0


KVS Nov 15, 2011 11:09 pm


Originally Posted by jasonvr (Post 17458320)
Looks like Amadeus - Enhanced Seat Maps. I get the error:

As this is a UA/CO-specific issue, the reply has been moved to the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/conti...l#post17458523 thread.

jasonvr Nov 15, 2011 11:20 pm


Originally Posted by KVS (Post 17458402)
All of the above flights are actually non-stop. However, for some reason, the [Enhanced Seat Maps] Engine currently sees them as being UA-coded only, which, in turn, causes the error.

Odd, must be a recent change. I've checked these within the last few days. Maybe an effect of the merger?

Ohh, and I had trimmed out the connecting flights which is why they were all non-stop :) The query brings back connecting flights as well.

I also ran into something on another query with seat maps, maybe related? It was telling me that a certain cabin didn't exist on the flight. It was a CO flight and I was checking for business (which used to work). However it would let me bring up F which would be more typical of UA.

KVS Nov 15, 2011 11:50 pm


Originally Posted by jasonvr (Post 17458446)
Odd, must be a recent change. I've checked these within the last few days. Maybe an effect of the merger?

As this is a UA/CO-specific issue, the reply has also been moved to the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/conti...l#post17458542 thread.

linglingfool Nov 16, 2011 5:24 am

First-time user, so apologies if the answer to this is obvious, but I've searched and can't figure it out:

Using the Awards/OneWorld method, I see there there is business class award availability on IB flights, but when I go to check availability in that bucket, nothing is returned. For example, searching IB 6274 (ORD-MAD) on 6/17/12 shows CS+ under Awards/Upgrades, but when I check U inventory under the Availability tab using Amadeus I get no results.

I'm searching for U based on the chart on the website -- should I be searching in a different bucket, or is there something I'm missing?

tomasem Nov 16, 2011 7:57 am

Has the OW search using the BA engine broken overnight since they switched to Avios? I keep getting an error message when looking for some JL availability.

KVS Nov 16, 2011 11:41 am

[Awards/BA-OneWorld] Method Temporarily Unavailable
 

Originally Posted by tomasem (Post 17460288)
Has the OW search using the BA engine broken overnight since they switched to Avios? I keep getting an error message when looking for some JL availability.

Indeed, this is a result of this overnight changeover. As soon as they finalize the new design, we will be releasing an updated version of the KVS Tool.

KVS Nov 16, 2011 11:46 am


Originally Posted by linglingfool (Post 17459545)
First-time user, so apologies if the answer to this is obvious, but I've searched and can't figure it out:

Welcome to the KVS Tool!


Originally Posted by linglingfool (Post 17459545)
Using the Awards/OneWorld method, I see there there is business class award availability on IB flights, but when I go to check availability in that bucket, nothing is returned. For example, searching IB 6274 (ORD-MAD) on 6/17/12 shows CS+ under Awards/Upgrades, but when I check U inventory under the Availability tab using Amadeus I get no results.

I'm searching for U based on the chart on the website -- should I be searching in a different bucket, or is there something I'm missing?

As with most Award Booking Classes, IB Award Availability should be searched via the [Awards/Upgrades] Tab in the KVS Tool.

Please see the table at http://Help.KVSTool.com/#AwardUpgradeClasses_OneWorld for details.

BTW, there is no "Amadeus" "under the Availability tab" :confused:.

linglingfool Nov 16, 2011 7:20 pm


Originally Posted by KVS (Post 17461800)
Welcome to the KVS Tool!


As with most Award Booking Classes, IB Award Availability should be searched via the [Awards/Upgrades] Tab in the KVS Tool.

Please see the table at http://Help.KVSTool.com/#AwardUpgradeClasses_OneWorld for details.

BTW, there is no "Amadeus" "under the Availability tab" :confused:.

Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry, meant Galileo, wrote the post in a hurry. Regardless, though -- if availability is shown in the awards/upgrades tab, I can ignore 0 inventory in the Availability tab for that award bucket?

KVS Nov 16, 2011 8:26 pm


Originally Posted by linglingfool (Post 17464716)
Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry, meant Galileo, wrote the post in a hurry. Regardless, though -- if availability is shown in the awards/upgrades tab, I can ignore 0 inventory in the Availability tab for that award bucket?

IB is known to have occasional issues with its Award Availability across different systems and the U Class showing-up in Regular Availability searches is something quite recent, so we don't yet have any authoritative data on this particular scenario...

KVS Nov 16, 2011 8:29 pm


Originally Posted by jmmlaguna (Post 17458298)
Are there any active coupon codes for the annual membership? Thanks!!

There are no Coupon Codes, but you are welcome to take advantage of the annual bonus that is automatically included in all of the 12-month membership options.


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