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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
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
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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
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
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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

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
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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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The content on this Site is for your personal use only within the organization or entity to which you are attached as applicable, and it is not intended for commercial exploitation unless expressly agreed in writing by IATA through a duly authorized representative. IATA authorizes you to download or reproduce selected materials at this Site only for your personal, non-commercial use, in the ordinary course of business provided that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original materials on any copies of the materials and that the title or database brand name and IATA name is stated as the source.

You may not otherwise modify, disassemble, create derivative works, distribute, reproduce, publicly display, perform, transmit, re-transmit, sell, rent, sublicense, or otherwise use any materials or content on this Site for commercial or non-commercial exploitation by yourself or the organization or entity to which you are attached or permit third parties to so do. Without limitation, unlimited or wholesale reproduction, copying of the content for commercial or non-commercial purposes and unwarranted modification of data and information within the content is not permitted, and any use of these materials on any other website or networked computer environment for any purpose without IATAs prior written consent is prohibited.
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...You must not modify, decompile, or reverse engineer any software IATA discloses to you via this Site, and you must not remove, overprint, or deface any notice of copyright, trademark, logo, legend, or other notice of ownership from any originals or copies of software or information from the website. "IATA Trademarks" means all names, marks, brands, URL names or addresses, logos, designs, trade dress and other designations IATA uses in connection with Products or Services. You are not permitted to incorporate any IATA Trademarks into any other trademarks, service marks, company names, Internet addresses, domain names, or any other similar designations. Any unauthorized use of any materials contained on this website may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.

http://www.itn.net/cgi/get
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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 Oct 31, 2006 | 8:18 pm
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Originally Posted by BF263533
When I try to access fares through this tool if receive the following message:

Unable To Retrieve Fares - CRS Error: Please check the dates you have entered-

Whether a date is present or one is present, I still get the same error message???
It's an issue with the ZUJI engine, which manifests itself when a month change is about to occur (i.e. on the last day of each month).

To get around it, temporarily change your system date to be the 1st of next month (e.g. 01 Nov), and run the query again.
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 4:41 pm
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Arrow Version 2.5.2 Released

See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...32#post6561732

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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 7:24 pm
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I take it that the SRS timetable functionality is nolonger available as it has been removed??
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 7:56 pm
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I'm having trouble with KVS tool right now. It's giving me an error
Error 35756 "Unable to complete request"
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 11:57 pm
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Originally Posted by ual744777sta
I'm having trouble with KVS tool right now. It's giving me an error
Error 35756 "Unable to complete request"
Pls see the FAQ at the beginning of the thread under "Error Messages".
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Old Nov 3, 2006 | 5:29 pm
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Originally Posted by tsgsjm
I take it that the SRS timetable functionality is nolonger available as it has been removed??
Yes. Please use the [Amadeus Timetables] instead -- it's the first large button at the top.
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Old Nov 4, 2006 | 3:39 am
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Hi,

I have a question concerning the Worldspan seat maps: When I try to access the seat map for Y class, the result only shows the first rows of Y. Is there any way to see the following rows ?

By the way: great tool ^
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Old Nov 5, 2006 | 1:35 pm
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Originally Posted by KVS
What's New in Version 2.5.2:
  • Resolved: Airline preference being ignored, when using the ITN-based methods.
  • New keyboard shortcut added:
    <Ctrl> + <PgUp>/<PgDown>: Request availability for previous/next day
[Download Version 2.5.2 Now]
KVS, how cool that you implemented my suggestion! I tried CTRL+PG UP/DN and it's GREAT!

I know that beggars can't be choosers, but I do have four more suggestions for you that would further enhance this already excellent program:

(1) Let's say I'm trying to piece together an itinerary, maybe it's an award itinerary. So I trawl through loads of different city pairs and dates, trying to find that rare open award seat in business class. A-ha! I found something, but it's not ideal. Okay, fine, I'll keep searching, but I'll set that flight aside for the time being and keep looking. Knowing me, if I don't write it down or paste it somewhere, I'll forget it. Currently, if I want to do this, I have to copy the whole thing to the clipboard or WordPad/Excel, including all the flights that came up from that query. This takes additional time as I then need to clean up the pasted data just to leave the flight that I like, plus I have to use another programme when I'd just as soon use the KVS tool only. Solution: How about putting in a separate window, maybe a split window at the bottom of the search results pane, where you can just dump the results of that ONE flight that you like, and then keep on searching, adding other flight possibilities or manually building segments until you get an itinerary you like? E.g., you could just right-click the flight you like best and dump it to the "holding bin" while you keep searching. As you go, you could continue to add more and more flights to the holding bin, and they would be sorted in chronological order.

(2) I find it a pain to have to right-click a particular flight to display its distance and duration; how about adding some columns to the right w/ this info?

(3) I find the "my trips" tab to be really useful, I've got quite a few trips stored in there that I am periodically checking for upgrade space. However, the drop down menu seems to have them stored by when they were saved, not by departure date. Could this be changed so they're ordered by departure date?

(4) Following on from (3), would it be possible to make it so that clicking the green arrow next to the selected saved itinerary not only populates the "Input" tab with the appropriate information but also selects the search method originally used (e.g., Apollo, Wspan, etc.)?

Thanks!
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Old Nov 6, 2006 | 10:45 am
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Originally Posted by Shilla
I have a question concerning the Worldspan seat maps: When I try to access the seat map for Y class, the result only shows the first rows of Y. Is there any way to see the following rows ?

By the way: great tool ^
Pls see the FAQ, Part 3: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...45#post2804945
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Old Nov 10, 2006 | 4:16 pm
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Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
KVS, how cool that you implemented my suggestion! I tried CTRL+PG UP/DN and it's GREAT!
Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
Solution: How about putting in a separate window, maybe a split window at the bottom of the search results pane, where you can just dump the results
I will keep your suggestion in mind for the future. However, I have also made a few changes in the upcoming version that will partly address this issue:
  • CTRL+P will send the displayed results to a new Wordpad window (in the current version, only 1 Wordpad window can be open at-a-time).

Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
(2) I find it a pain to have to right-click a particular flight to display its distance and duration; how about adding some columns to the right w/ this info?
Sorry, but this is by design -- I would like to avoid having a horizontal scrollbar, that is why all the 'extra' info is displayed in the pop-up menu.

Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
(3) I find the "my trips" tab to be really useful, I've got quite a few trips stored in there that I am periodically checking for upgrade space. However, the drop down menu seems to have them stored by when they were saved, not by departure date. Could this be changed so they're ordered by departure date?
There is no easy way to do it at this point, as it would lead to the loss of all previously-saved trips...

Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
(4) Following on from (3), would it be possible to make it so that clicking the green arrow next to the selected saved itinerary not only populates the "Input" tab with the appropriate information but also selects the search method originally used (e.g., Apollo, Wspan, etc.)?
Yes, I will see if it can be done for the upcoming version...
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Old Nov 10, 2006 | 4:17 pm
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(The FAQs, located at the top of this thread, have been updated)
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Old Nov 11, 2006 | 2:45 pm
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FAQ Part 2 updated to include a section on [Using the Tool to Plan a MR]: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...80#post2804880
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Old Nov 12, 2006 | 2:31 am
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Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
How about putting in a separate window, maybe a split window at the bottom of the search results pane, where you can just dump the results
Originally Posted by KVS
I will keep your suggestion in mind for the future. However, I have also made a few changes in the upcoming version that will partly address this issue:
  • CTRL+P will send the displayed results to a new Wordpad window (in the current version, only 1 Wordpad window can be open at-a-time).
I have tried this in 2.5.2, but it only works for one set of data, so this doesn't really address the usefulness of having a scratch pad to just dump data to. If it would append results to the WordPad window each time then this would be okay. Alternatively it could open a new NotePad window each time you hit CTRL-P.

Reading your response, I thought of yet another way to do this... years ago there was an award availability finder that we FTers used to find awards and hidden classes. I can't remember the name of it. It had a similar layout to the KVS tool... data input at the top of the application window, results window at the bottom. But there were actually eight results windows, tabbed with numbers 1-8 (using tabs similar to your Input, Filter, MyTrips, MyPNRs tabs).

So you would start on Tab 1 (for instance), do a query, and if you liked the results, click on Tab 2 and do more queries. When you found something else you liked, you'd move onto Tab 3, and so on. Then you could always click back to Tab 1 where the original results would still be displayed.

Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
I find it a pain to have to right-click a particular flight to display its distance and duration; how about adding some columns to the right w/ this info?
Originally Posted by KVS
Sorry, but this is by design -- I would like to avoid having a horizontal scrollbar, that is why all the 'extra' info is displayed in the pop-up menu.
Yes, I understand, I guess right-clicking or double-clicking is the lesser of the evils.
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Old Nov 12, 2006 | 2:54 pm
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Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
I have tried this in 2.5.2, but it only works for one set of data, so this doesn't really address the usefulness of having a scratch pad to just dump data to. If it would append results to the WordPad window each time then this would be okay. Alternatively it could open a new NotePad window each time you hit CTRL-P.
When I wrote "upcoming version", I actually meant V2.5.3, not the current version (V2.5.2) .

Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
But there were actually eight results windows, tabbed with numbers 1-8 (using tabs similar to your Input, Filter, MyTrips, MyPNRs tabs).
Yes, I am currently considering that idea... However, the internal architecture of the KVS Tool is much more sophisticated than the 'old' text-only Tool you mentioned. An addition of 8 'tabbed windows' can cause the Tool to become a major resource hog, which is something I would like to avoid. There will also be a potential problem with the [FILTER] and [MY TRIPS] tabs, as they would need to relate to each of the 8 windows.

In the meantime, at the Gold/Platinum level, you can run as many independent instances of the Tool, as you require. You can then right-click on the Windows taskbar and use the [Cascade Windows] option to automatically 'stack' them on the screen, like this:

http://xs108.xs.to/xs108/06450/KVSTo...adeWindows.gif

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Old Nov 13, 2006 | 5:44 am
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Had a host problem... now resolved itself.

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