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On 17 Apr 2005, at 23:12, David H. Adler wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: >> On 4/17/05, Smylers <Smylers@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: >>> And a hateful side effect of this specification by airport rather >>> than >>> location is that there's no easy way to request departures from 'any >>> London airport' -- you have to list "LGW", "LHR", etc separately. >>> Except that there are only 3 of these fields for providing acceptable >>> departure points, and London has more than 3 airports, so you have to >>> perform separate searches to check all of them. >> >> Apparently the software hadn't heard of the code "LON", which means, >> as far as I know, "any London airport". I believe it's an official >> IATA code. Similarly for other useful codes such as "NYC" (which >> presumably expands into something like qw/JFK LGA EWR/ or the like). > > If it doesn't handle those extrordinarily common cases, hate is > justified. This makes me wonder even more what software they're using. > It sounds like it's a web based thing, which, at least here in the > states, is quite uncommon, afaik. Sabre doesnt' have a web interface, > but it certainly lets you use LON and NYC and has a facility for > looking > up the other airport codes. Some websites don't support LON and NYC, I hate them and I refuse to use them. (Especially holiday sites have this problem). FUCKING SHIT PIECE OF SOFTWARE I LIVE IN EC1 SO I DON'T CARE IF I FLY FROM LGW LHR LCY LTN or STN. Cheers Arthur ----- CTO @ Fotango Ltd +447834716919 http://www.fotango.com/There's stuff above here
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