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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. Then again, it's probably been around longer than the people who actually wrote that web thing. :-) dha -- David H. Adler - <dha@xxxxx.xxx> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Shut up, listen, and dance. - MadnessThere's stuff above here
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