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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
Terms of Use:

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.
E. 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 the Site for public or commercial purposes. Nothing on the 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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Limitations on your use:
You agree that you will not Misuse the Site. "Misuse" includes, but is not limited to, using the Site to do any of the following:
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L. Copy or create derivative works from, display, distribute, license, perform, publish, recreate, reproduce, sell, transfer, or transmit any information, products, services, or software obtained by, from, or through the Site.
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
Terms of Use:

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
Prohibited Activities

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.

You may not modify, re-render, frame, mirror, truncate, add to, inject, filter or change the order of the information contained on any page of the Southwest Airlines sites, including, without limitation, by any way of reproducing Southwest Airlines or SWABiz web pages or Company information on any other web site without our express written permission.

You may not copy, derive, edit, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, modify, use, or reproduce any code or source relating to our sites, including without limitation, any service or product Southwest offers.

You may not cause to appear any pop-up, pop-under, exit windows, expanding buttons, banners advertisement, or anything else which minimizes, covers, or otherwise inhibits the full display of the Southwest Airlines sites.

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
Terms of Use:

https://wtrweb.worldtracer.aero/WorldTracerWeb/pax.do
Terms of Use:

https://www121.jal.co.jp/JmbWeb/JR/S...MileCalc_en.do
Terms of Use:

https://www4.thy.com/mybookings/ETDisplay.tk
https://www4.thy.com/mybookings/getPnr.tk
Terms of Use:

https://www.airberlin.com/en-DE/cockpit
Terms of Use:

https://www.airfrance.fr/cgi-bin/AF/...chPnrAction.do
Terms of Use:

https://www.alaskaair.com/booking/reservationlookup
Terms of Use:

https://www.bookonline.saudiairlines...verride.action
https://www.bookonline.saudiairlines...verride.action
Terms of Use:

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
3. Licence restrictions

3.1 Except as expressly set out in this EULA or as permitted by any local law, you agree:
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(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://www.delta.com/mytrips/findPnr.action
http://www.delta.com/ism/SeatMapDisplay.action
http://www.delta.com/shared/components/blank.jsp
Terms of Use:

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

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

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

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

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

2. Proprietary rights
...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
Terms of Use:

https://www.tripple.jp
Terms of Use:

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/app...n/default.aspx
Terms of Use:
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/legal.aspx This website is for the User's personal, noncommercial use only. User agrees not to modify, copy, alter, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from this website without Uniteds prior written permission. User agrees not to use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy this website or the content contained therein or for any other unauthorized purpose without Uniteds prior written permission. ... United reserves the right to investigate any illegal and/or unauthorized use of this website, including, but not limited to, unauthorized framing of this website or unauthorized use of any robot, spider or other automated device, and to take appropriate legal action, including, without limitation, civil, criminal and injunctive redress.

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
Terms of Use:

http://www.kenya-airways.com/kqbook.aspx
Terms of Use:

http://www.myairlines.ru
Terms of Use:

http://www.qantas.com.au/regions/do/dyn/checkmytrip
Terms of Use:

http://www.seatexpert.com/multiple_results.php
Terms of Use:

http://www.seatguru.com/ajax/findseatmap.php
Terms of Use:

http://www.seatmaestro.com/airlines-...eckmytrip.html
http://www.seatmaestro.com/themes/de...te_airline.php
Terms of Use:

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 Dec 19, 2011 | 9:34 pm
  #4636  
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
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Originally Posted by HighPotter
New user....

How do you search for availability of upgrades/awards on a specific AA flight, without it dumping you into OneWorld partners?

I only want to check AA flights only.

HP
Use AA.com. Since KVS screen scrapes from the QF and BA award search tools, you will get oneworld partner results mixed in if it is a route that is flown by partners other than AA. This is also only for awards, KVS doesn't support C,X,R upgrade inventory classes.

Originally Posted by wpj
getting the same cookies error in EY searches.

anybody got a fix? IE cookies settings does not seem to help

thanks
Try using the same page that KVS scrapes the data from: https://www.etihadairways.com/sites/...obe/trial.aspx
Do the search there, then look in the HTML source on the results page and you'll see all the class codes.

Originally Posted by faithwins
Hello all,

Was hoping if you all could help me out real quick. Just bought a platinum subscription membership to KVS. When I try to search for something under the awards/upgrade tab it yields the following result "The selected feature is not availible in the Platinum-tier version of the Tool and requires a Diamond-tier membership".

Is this correct? I thought platinum had access to this tool as well. Or am I doing something wrong.
Originally Posted by golfmad
I had the same issue. Thought Platinum would be what I needed but had to upgrade to Diamond to get that to work for BA flights. Would be interested to hear the response from the KVS rep.
The answer is concealed in the KVS site. Go here: http://www.kvstool.com/MembershipLev...OME-L#Features then where it says "Features: Summary View" choose Detailed view from the drop down. You'll then see that oneworld:BA & JL are Diamond only. Too bad that's not clearer.

It also looks like that two of the features that have been turned off by the source websites: Availability:GTC and ITA Fare Search, both required a high level of contribution. Also the Fares:TVN method that was just turned off by Travelocity was the only fare search method that a Gold member could use. With those loss of features, it looks like a realignment of what's included at what level should be forthcoming.
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Old Dec 21, 2011 | 2:47 am
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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KVS Registration e-mail

How long should it take to get a registration email? I've received the Order "Confirmation" (with Order ID) email and the "Contribution" confirmation/receipt email. Should I be looking for a 3rd?
I have installed the app, Clicked "Request Registration Code", completed the Registration Wizard, and I've checked my Spam folder.
The whole process seems a little convoluted so any feedback is appreciated!
Thanks!
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Old Dec 21, 2011 | 10:24 am
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New Diamond level user here. Love this program!

Can someone help me with a tutorial on how to display or calculate out award tickets when trying to combine DL flights with KL or AF flights? I can see where I can price out DL award flights to display miles and Also the KL/AF awards to display FB miles, etc....
How do I know what that cost will be when booking/combining DL and AF/KL flights?
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Old Dec 21, 2011 | 12:12 pm
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Is there a way to search for upgrade availability (O bucket) for US Airways on award blackout dates?
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Old Dec 21, 2011 | 1:54 pm
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ITA query builder

Just installed the newest version, diamond level, and I keep getting 12029 errors when trying to use the "find flights with this fare" feature. There is no personal firewall, my anti-virus is disabled, I don't use a proxy, and I even tried lowering IEs security settings to essentially nothing. It refuses to work. The entire rest of the program works great, only that one feature gives me errors. Any thoughts?
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Old Dec 21, 2011 | 4:34 pm
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What is the proper syntax to use for a wildcard in the destination field when looking at the Fares tab for United? ** doesn't seem to work.
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Old Dec 25, 2011 | 1:06 pm
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Kvs tool help

I have seen that more than a few people use KVS. could someone tell me if I can buy the tickets on KVS?, or its only to see seat availability?

I can already access aa.com and see the seat available, so how will I benefit from this? I'm planing a RTW trip with miles in april 2012, will KVS help me? how will it help me, I try searching and everybody talks wonders about KVS but nobody gives a simple explanation on the benefits....... do travel agencies use this ?

how will it help on a MR......

thanks.
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Old Dec 25, 2011 | 2:50 pm
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Please see the KVS tool thread. All the info you need is there. Its also monitored by the KVS Rep on FT

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...tool-here.html
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Old Dec 25, 2011 | 4:00 pm
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Welcome to FT^^^^ no you can't buy tickets off of KVS. You have to use a ticket agency (online or not) or airline.
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Old Dec 26, 2011 | 1:04 am
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Originally Posted by dcaem
I have seen that more than a few people use KVS. could someone tell me if I can buy the tickets on KVS?, or its only to see seat availability?

I can already access aa.com and see the seat available, so how will I benefit from this? I'm planing a RTW trip with miles in april 2012, will KVS help me? how will it help me, I try searching and everybody talks wonders about KVS but nobody gives a simple explanation on the benefits....... do travel agencies use this ?

how will it help on a MR......

thanks.
Tools like KVS and ExpertFlyer let you see published fares between city pairs, their associated rules and permitted routings, and search inventory as to find seats in the fare bucket you're after. These are all very useful pieces for constructing an itinerary (mileage run or otherwise).

While I'm less familiar with what KVS provides, EF provides award space searching capabilities for a good number of airlines.
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Old Dec 26, 2011 | 7:31 am
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Inconsistency: different info from KVS and BA

I'd be grateful if someone from KVS would take a look at this for me and let me know what you think.

Thanks
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Old Dec 26, 2011 | 8:31 pm
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Originally Posted by golfmad
Hi, I tend to buy premium economy on BA and then use miles/avios to upgrade to business. The availability search on the KVS tool has options for economy, business and first. Is there any way to search for premium economy fares?
Sorry, it was a daft question. Premium economy is just a set of separate fare codes in economy. On BA they are W, E and T which appear in the economy fare searches.
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Old Dec 27, 2011 | 9:41 am
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Trouble With Malaysia Airlines Award Search

Greetings one and all from a KVS newbie.

I'm having some trouble using the Sabre/FS method to search for economy award seats on Malaysia Airlines (MH).

According to the FAQ, "T" is the economy award bucket. The post referenced in the FAQ details also shows that "I" is the business award bucket, though this is NOT in the FAQ.

When I search, I can see "I" availability, but I don't see a "T" bucket at all. Perhaps this has changed to a different letter???
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Old Dec 27, 2011 | 11:21 am
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Originally Posted by faithwins
Hello all,

Was hoping if you all could help me out real quick. Just bought a platinum subscription membership to KVS. When I try to search for something under the awards/upgrade tab it yields the following result "The selected feature is not availible in the Platinum-tier version of the Tool and requires a Diamond-tier membership".

Is this correct? I thought platinum had access to this tool as well. Or am I doing something wrong.

Blessings in the New Year!
Originally Posted by pandaperth
Click on the Membership/Registration button and then choose Upgrade/Renew Membership
- what each membership level gives you will then be displayed
Originally Posted by faithwins
I did thatand it still seems to imply these features should be availible to platinum members hmmm... Any thoughts?
Originally Posted by jasonvr
Which specific method are you trying to use? Examples are:
  • SNT: Awards/StarAlliance
  • ITA: Awards-Upgrades/UA
  • Amadeus: Awards:OneWorld

And what are you trying to search for (Airline, Award, Upgrade, etc)?

This page has a good breakdown of what methods are available for each membership level:
http://www.kvstool.com/Screenshots.php#Awards_SA
Originally Posted by golfmad
I had the same issue. Thought Platinum would be what I needed but had to upgrade to Diamond to get that to work for BA flights. Would be interested to hear the response from the KVS rep.
Welcome to the KVS Tool, faithwins & golfmad & many thanks to pandaperth & jasonvr for helping a fellow member in the meantime!

Award Availability for most carriers is accessible via multiple Methods within the KVS Tool, so it is available at both Platinum & Diamond membership tiers -- please see http://Levels.KVSTool.com/ and select the [Detailed View] option.
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Old Dec 27, 2011 | 11:29 am
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Originally Posted by Jensine
When I try to DL the tool, my firewall prevents me from doing so, claiming it is a harmfull site. Is this true?
The fact that a firewall may display a false alarm is true, but the "harmful site" claim is, most definitely, false.

Originally Posted by coregis
To add content- No I do not believe this is a harmful tool. There are over 100 pages in this thread, that would be a very elaborate scheme to get at your family photos.
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