*A Award Availability Tool in Public Beta
Oct 2, 2011 | 10:40 pm
#1
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: LAX; CLE
Programs: UA, AA
Posts: 187
*A Award Availability Tool in Public Beta
I wrote a tool to help myself search for award availability more efficiently. It allows you to use the ANA tool more effectively by searching a span of dates rather than a single date at a time. It's in its very early stages so it's quite rough at the moment.
milefinder.webfactional.com/star
Like the ANA tool this requires an ANA account with at least 1000 miles to work. At some point I may find a way to gather the data somewhere else if there is a lot of interest. For now, enjoy!
milefinder.webfactional.com/star
Like the ANA tool this requires an ANA account with at least 1000 miles to work. At some point I may find a way to gather the data somewhere else if there is a lot of interest. For now, enjoy!
Oct 3, 2011 | 9:34 pm
#5
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: NYC
Programs: SPG, AA, BA, CO, UA, US, B6, DL, Amex MR, HH
Posts: 1,010
Very useful tool. Obviously it could use some GUI improvements, but that's easy and you've gotten down the link to the ANA tool (which is probably the harder part). There's lots of potential with this site, but some notes/things I'd like to see are:
- For options that the ANA tool shows a connection, your tool only shows the first flight.
- Ability to search for more than one seat would probably be most useful for me.
- Multi-leg trips would be nice, but might be difficult to implement
Great job!
- For options that the ANA tool shows a connection, your tool only shows the first flight.
- Ability to search for more than one seat would probably be most useful for me.
- Multi-leg trips would be nice, but might be difficult to implement
Great job!
Oct 3, 2011 | 11:05 pm
#6
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: YVR
Programs: Aeroplan, AAdvantage
Posts: 2,107
http://milefinder.webfactional.com/s...tnSpan=&login=[deleted] gives me an internal server error.
Oct 4, 2011 | 11:15 am
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Oct 4, 2011 | 3:57 pm
#9
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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I haven't really added much form correction to it so there are a lot of ways to trip up the software right now. One way is to leave any field blank. I should have explained the range field - as zoobtoob said it's the number of days after your date that you want to search. To search for October 10th-15th you'd type this:
OCT 10 5
You can enter 0 to search for only the date you entered but you do need to put a number in, it can not be blank.
I'll be fixing the bugs and adding things like ability to search for multiple passengers, reading out connecting flights properly and displaying everything a little neater. Thanks for the observations and suggestions keep them coming!
OCT 10 5
You can enter 0 to search for only the date you entered but you do need to put a number in, it can not be blank.
I'll be fixing the bugs and adding things like ability to search for multiple passengers, reading out connecting flights properly and displaying everything a little neater. Thanks for the observations and suggestions keep them coming!
Oct 4, 2011 | 7:36 pm
#10
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: yyz
Programs: Non-Rev Lifetime
Posts: 1,925
I haven't really added much form correction to it so there are a lot of ways to trip up the software right now. One way is to leave any field blank. I should have explained the range field - as zoobtoob said it's the number of days after your date that you want to search. To search for October 10th-15th you'd type this:
OCT 10 5
You can enter 0 to search for only the date you entered but you do need to put a number in, it can not be blank.
I'll be fixing the bugs and adding things like ability to search for multiple passengers, reading out connecting flights properly and displaying everything a little neater. Thanks for the observations and suggestions keep them coming!
OCT 10 5
You can enter 0 to search for only the date you entered but you do need to put a number in, it can not be blank.
I'll be fixing the bugs and adding things like ability to search for multiple passengers, reading out connecting flights properly and displaying everything a little neater. Thanks for the observations and suggestions keep them coming!