Is There a Workaround For The Award Search Calendar View Bug?
Sep 21, 2014, 10:25 am
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Is There a Workaround For The Award Search Calendar View Bug?
Hi,
We all know that the nice calendar showing availability of awards was very useful. It would something not be available only to show up the next day.
Now on a search from MEL->SFO for Jan 2015 it hasn't shown up in well over a week.
Can anyone suggest a workaround? I don't want to type in every single date and search for availability.
Thanks in advance.
We all know that the nice calendar showing availability of awards was very useful. It would something not be available only to show up the next day.
Now on a search from MEL->SFO for Jan 2015 it hasn't shown up in well over a week.
Can anyone suggest a workaround? I don't want to type in every single date and search for availability.
Thanks in advance.
Sep 21, 2014, 10:40 am
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Sep 21, 2014, 11:19 am
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I think that when the calendar does not show you any other dates, just the date you put in, it infers that there are no available flights within a long range of dates. Try the previous month and see if any dates come up.
Remember, Smisek is trying to do away with MP, as is evident by the lack of Award availability.
Remember, Smisek is trying to do away with MP, as is evident by the lack of Award availability.
Sep 21, 2014, 11:27 am
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Short term thinking seems to be the rage of late....
Sep 21, 2014, 4:28 pm
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That's not the way its worked for the last five years.
What would happen is you would put in your dates. If Saver awards were available they would show you a list of them, OTHERWISE you'd get the calendar with the green entries showing when availability exists for Y/J saver.
Now I get nothing ...
Sep 21, 2014, 8:04 pm
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Demonstrably not the situation in my case. There were non-saver seats available every day of the month that had opened up, but the map would not come up LHR==>SFO.
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Sep 22, 2014, 12:44 am
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Hi,
We all know that the nice calendar showing availability of awards was very useful. It would something not be available only to show up the next day.
Now on a search from MEL->SFO for Jan 2015 it hasn't shown up in well over a week.
Can anyone suggest a workaround? I don't want to type in every single date and search for availability.
Thanks in advance.
We all know that the nice calendar showing availability of awards was very useful. It would something not be available only to show up the next day.
Now on a search from MEL->SFO for Jan 2015 it hasn't shown up in well over a week.
Can anyone suggest a workaround? I don't want to type in every single date and search for availability.
Thanks in advance.