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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
Website’s 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 Flightradar24’s 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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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
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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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(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
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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
Terms of Use:

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

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/app...n/default.aspx
Terms of Use:
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https://www.viewtrip.com/GetItin.aspx
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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 Sep 24, 2012, 9:43 pm
  #5401  
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Originally Posted by Dr. HFH
Please consider this a strong vote in favor of adding this capability. I use OW with the JL method. The BA method seems to take 2-3 times as long for each search, and the straight OW method (as well as the CX method) doesn't differentiate between seats CX makes available to AM members and those it makes available to partner programs. Most often, I'm looking for CX seats. I've used the *A seven day search a few times for the AC miles I sporadically collect, and it makes the searches so much easier!! Thanks, KVS!!!
At the moment, only the [Awards/StarAlliance] Engine natively supports 7-day searches. If we were to implement a 7-day search for other Methods, it can make the multi-day search process more convenient, but it would be technically impossible to make those searches any faster, as the speed is determined by the Engine speed itself.

Originally Posted by JIMCHI
1. I was never aware that the CX award seats showing on KVS are not necessarily available to partner program members, such as AAdvantage. KVS- is this true and can you come up with a method which gets around this?
We already did (about 12 months ago ) -- if you use the [Awards/JL-OneWorld] Method, the CX Award Availability shown is, in fact, partner Availability and will match what the AADV Agents see on their screens.
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Old Sep 24, 2012, 9:47 pm
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Originally Posted by highman123
I'm hitting a strange issue with KQ NBO-SEZ 08/01/2013 return 08/06/2013 - AF Tool shows availability, Deltas shows nothing - would be great if someone with access could take a look for O space?
Both dates are currently outside of the 10-month range for the AF/FB Engine -- where are you seeing Award Availability, exactly?
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Old Sep 24, 2012, 9:49 pm
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Originally Posted by zozeppelin
Newbie, looking to make sure I am seeing this correctly. I am looking for US to LIM award ticket (focusing on MIA to LIM on LAN to use the sharing award class since AA is unavailable). I believe I should be looking for T class availability on LAN (X for AA) for the Standard award (so I can lump it together for 30k round trip). Now, I search oneworld awards for LIM-MIA on Oct 22nd and get nothing (both Oneworld and BA). When I look at availability I see a LIM-BOG-MIA flight with T class availability. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
[Awards/BA-OneWorld] Engine is currently showing 7+ YS/T Award Seats available on those flights:

[KVS Availability Tool 7.0.6/Diamond - Amadeus: Awards/BA-OneWorld]
Code:
LIM  Lima Jorge Chavez Intl PE [SPIM]
MIA  Miami Intl FL US [KMIA]
MON  22 Oct 2012

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive         St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  ------------
LA/LP      2584    LIM   19:50     BOG   23:05              YS7
 -> LA/4C  3502    BOG   07:20 +1  MIA   12:15 +1           YS7
LA/LP      2584    LIM   19:50     BOG   23:05              YS7
 -> AA     2170    BOG   08:00 +1  MIA   12:45 +1           YS7

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Old Sep 24, 2012, 11:12 pm
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Now that Expert Mode and fare class availability is back on UA.com, will it reappear in KVS?
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Old Sep 25, 2012, 12:42 am
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Originally Posted by highman123
I'm hitting a strange issue with KQ NBO-SEZ 08/01/2013 return 08/06/2013 - AF Tool shows availability, Deltas shows nothing - would be great if someone with access could take a look for O space?
Both dates are currently outside of the 10-month range for the AF/FB Engine -- where are you seeing Award Availability, exactly?
Airfrance.us shows 12 month in calendar overview. It shows there.
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Old Sep 25, 2012, 1:57 pm
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Originally Posted by highman123
Airfrance.us shows 12 month in calendar overview. It shows there.
As noted on AF.us:
"You can book award tickets between 10 months and 3 hours prior to departure for short and medium-haul flights, and between 10 months and 24 hours prior to departure for long-haul flights."
The calendar may show Availability beyond that range, but if you try to select such a date, you will receive an error message, such as:
"There are no Air France flights on the selected route."
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Old Sep 25, 2012, 2:01 pm
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Originally Posted by KVS
As noted on AF.us:
"You can book award tickets between 10 months and 3 hours prior to departure for short and medium-haul flights, and between 10 months and 24 hours prior to departure for long-haul flights."
The calendar may show Availability beyond that range, but if you try to select such a date, you will receive an error message, such as:
"There are no Air France flights on the selected route."
Fair enough but try 7/25/2013 - it shows at least 2 seats in O (Business) in low award. However Delta can't see any of it - in fact most GDS can't even see that flight at all
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Old Sep 25, 2012, 2:34 pm
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Originally Posted by highman123
Fair enough but try 7/25/2013 - it shows at least 2 seats in O (Business) in low award. However Delta can't see any of it - in fact most GDS can't even see that flight at all
There are, indeed, C Award Seats Available on 25 Jul 2013.

For tips on dealing with Agents, who may claim otherwise, please see http://Help.KVSTool.com/#AgentSaysNo

[KVS Availability Tool 7.0.6/Diamond - Amadeus: Awards/SkyTeam/US-AF]
Code:
NBO  Nairobi Metro / Jomo Kenyatta Intl KE = NBO WIL [HKNA]
SEZ  Seychelles Mahe Is Pointe La Rue Intl SC [FSIA]
THU  25 Jul 2013 | 1 Seat

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive         St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  ------------
KQ         450     NBO   09:05     SEZ   13:20              CS+
[KVS Availability Tool 7.0.6/Diamond - Galileo: Availability/ETR/JP]
Code:
NBO  Nairobi Metro / Jomo Kenyatta Intl KE = NBO WIL [HKNA]
SEZ  Seychelles Mahe Is Pointe La Rue Intl SC [FSIA]
THU  25 Jul 2013

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  ------------
KQ         450     NBO   09:05     SEZ   13:20     E90  0   O4
KQ         310     NBO   19:20     DXB   01:35 +1  763  0   O4
 -> EK     707     DXB   08:25 +1  SEZ   13:05 +1  345  0   O7
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Old Sep 25, 2012, 4:11 pm
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Arrow UA Award & Upgrade Availability Format Update

UA Numeric Availability Format & Elite Award/Upgrade Availability support have now been fully restored.

Please refer to the updated Method Info & UA Booking Classes Table sections for details and be sure to download the latest version (V7.0.6).
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Old Sep 25, 2012, 8:02 pm
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Originally Posted by KVS
UA Numeric Availability Format & Elite Award/Upgrade Availability support have now been fully restored.

Please refer to the updated Method Info & UA Booking Classes Table sections for details and be sure to download the latest version (V7.0.6).
Yes it has, thank you!

However, it seems to be unable to parse the 787 indication for UA:

[KVS Availability Tool 7.0.6/Diamond - ITA: Awards-Upgrades/UA]
Code:
SFO  San Francisco Intl CA US [KSFO]
IAH  Houston George Bush Intercnt'l TX US [KIAH]
SUN  09 Dec 2012

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
UA         1146    SFO   00:15     IAH   05:41              F9 A9 JN9 Z9 ZN9 P9 PN9 R9 RN9 IN9 I9 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X9
UA         565     SFO   06:02     IAH   11:54     752      F9 A9 JN9 Z9 ZN9 P9 PN9 R9 RN9 IN4 I4 Y9 YN9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 HN9 Q9 V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9 XN9 X8
Flight 1146 is operated by a 787 on 12/9
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Old Sep 26, 2012, 8:01 am
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KVS Tool wins again!

I just wanted to say thank you for this great resource. I just booked an award in C BUF -HAM RT. As I gave the agent my flt #'s, she was amazed that they all had award availability! Wow, she said, I wish all award bookings were this easy. I loved that I could check availability by several methods. I know I get the best results by "building" my ITN one seg at a time. Without this Tool I'd be lost. Thanks for all your hard work!
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Old Sep 26, 2012, 12:56 pm
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issues with ow/qantas?

i am looking at OW awards (EZE-PUQ). when i use the OW/BA method i get some results, however, this method does not include lan argentina (4M) for some reason, so i checked using the amadeus OW method which pulls from qantas and i get "no award availability" even when i am getting them with the OW/BA method. i noticed 2 issues, one with KVS and one with qantas, but not sure which one is causing the problem.
issue with qantas: i tried booking a dummy award on their website, but the departure airport (EZE) is not even an option! they have an annoying drop down menu for departure airports and it won't let you input what you want.
issue with KVS: it does not give you an error message if you enter the incorrect PIN number under settings, i purposely tried several incorrect PINs and the correct PIN for my qantas account and just got "no award availability" for both the correct and incorrect PINs, so not sure if it is even checking correctly.
any words of wisdom?
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Old Sep 26, 2012, 1:17 pm
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Originally Posted by IAD1k
i am looking at OW awards (EZE-PUQ). when i use the OW/BA method i get some results, however, this method does not include lan argentina (4M) for some reason, so i checked using the amadeus OW method which pulls from qantas and i get "no award availability" even when i am getting them with the OW/BA method.
LA (and its affiliates) are currently experiencing system connectivity issues with some of its partners, which may cause Award Availability not to show via the [Awards/OneWorld] Method, while [Awards/BA-OneWorld] continues to function normally.

4M is only supported via [Awards/OneWorld]:
http://Help.KVSTool.com/#4M

Originally Posted by IAD1k
i noticed 2 issues, one with KVS and one with qantas, but not sure which one is causing the problem.

issue with qantas: i tried booking a dummy award on their website, but the departure airport (EZE) is not even an option! they have an annoying drop down menu for departure airports and it won't let you input what you want.
That is correct -- KVS Tool supports a much wider set of departure/arrival points than the QF.com website does directly.

Originally Posted by IAD1k
issue with KVS: it does not give you an error message if you enter the incorrect PIN number under settings, i purposely tried several incorrect PINs and the correct PIN for my qantas account and just got "no award availability" for both the correct and incorrect PINs, so not sure if it is even checking correctly.
If you are already logged-in (using the correct PIN), you need to restart the KVS Tool after entering an incorrect one.
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Old Sep 27, 2012, 10:36 am
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Originally Posted by jasonvr
However, it seems to be unable to parse the 787 indication for UA
This issue has now been resolved -- please download V7.0.6.R1.
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Old Sep 28, 2012, 12:19 am
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Why does it seem that every time I really need something in KVS in order to jump on a fare, I got an error

MCT doesn't seem to be working. Getting the error:

Error Retrieving Reference Data [WDC-S-ERR]
"[Host Fault] "MATIP Timeout""
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