Re: Travel Agent Booking Software

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From: Arthur Bergman
Subject: Re: Travel Agent Booking Software
Date: 23:20 on 17 Apr 2005
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


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