Travelocity Griping

[Blaine Thompson]

I received an Alert from Travelocity saying that my prized fare had
dropped. I investigated dates - clicking on only green dates, as they
are "available"

What's the point in a wild goose chase - many many green dates becoming
X (not available)? I ended up searching the three lowest airfares (on
three different airlines) - all green/available boxes changed to X/not
available.

I thought computers were sophisticated enough to keep real-time track of
seat availability?

(or am I wrong...I thought Travelocity blocked a few seats on each
flight? Hence the above statement.)

Educate me.

- Blaine

[RWM]

Cache or not, even if it was realtime availability at the time the alert
was propagated (to what, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of
subscribers, message propagation being instantaneous, or taking minutes
or hours depending on ISP mail server handling, followed by a delay in
reading taking minutes or hours or even a day or more?), it could still
be closed by the time the alert was acted on by any individual
recipient, either due to bookings triggered by the alert, or issuing
elsewhere.

- RWM

Travelocity doesn't block seats on flights but being owned and powered by
Sabre they should have access to last seat availability. I suspect they
cache inventory and when you try to book it, it actually checks for the
space which is not there.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
Blaine Thompson
Sent: July 4, 2006 10:01 AM
Subject: Travelocity Griping
I received an Alert from Travelocity saying that my prized fare had dropped.
I investigated dates - clicking on only green dates, as they are "available"
What's the point in a wild goose chase - many many green dates becoming X
(not available)? I ended up searching the three lowest airfares (on three
different airlines) - all green/available boxes changed to X/not available.
I thought computers were sophisticated enough to keep real-time track of
seat availability?
(or am I wrong...I thought Travelocity blocked a few seats on each flight?
Hence the above statement.)
Educate me.
- Blaine

[Blaine Thompson]

I understand now that I'm having a fantasy in that I wish the system
would not list said fare, if it's really sold out.

Thanks for all your input - I learned a fair (fare?...) bit.

- Blaine