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Wow! I mean just wow! It takes a lot to really impress me but this FlyerTalker has started my week mega impressed. Take a look:
The tool that user “dlflyer00” has set up on the site https://pnr.sh gives you simply TONS of data about your upcoming flight reservation (i.e. PNR) that you normally do not see either on Delta.com or the Fly Delta App.
Updated, March 9:
Delta apparently asked the site’s developer to take down the tool. This person writes:
I got a (respectful) request from Delta to disable this tool for a week while they make changes to the information available via the API. I will bring it back after that, presumably though without cooler things like remarks.
This information has been visible for years, but I guess FlyerTalk is enough motivation to hide them
That certainly stinks. Thanks, though, to dlflyer00 for creating the fun, resourceful site! That kind of coding know-how always amazes me.
Despite the Delta PNR tool being posted on a well-known and frequently-visited public forum that truly does feature some very helpful and good information, several people placed blame solely on travel bloggers because a few of us write about the site. (Newsflash: Delta people read FlyerTalk. 🙂 ) So — sorry? (Not sorry? 😉 )
— Chris
The most remarkable part of all of it is the “Remarks” section that you are unlikely to have access to unless you are a Delta agent (at least, I have never been able to find this data elsewhere). This can be so helpful when it comes to schedule changes – or more importantly – if some Delta rep manually puts remarks into your reservation that you either want there or do not want to see.
Sadly, I doubt the site will be allowed to last because, as we should all know, Delta legal folks are quick to respond to things they don’t appreciate! Like Award Wallet and so many other useful tools to help us, I fear PNR.sh will soon get a nasty legal letter to stop scraping data (even though WE are the one doing it and WE are scraping our own Delta data).
I am no “GO” programmer (nor any kind of programmer). I attempted to load and run the PNR.sh open source code in a command shell in windows on my computer and got nowhere. Maybe an educated reader can help us all to be able to have this stunning tool on our devices locally and in this way not be able to have Delta shut down this stunning gift to frequent flyers.
Also, as a side note, it ties in with another tool we often use here on the blog, the Unofficial SkyMiles Calculator (https://fly.qux.us/smcalc) to estimate how many points we will earn for any given flight (they do not scrape Delta data thus why it likely has been able to last this far). Not 100% perfect — but really neat that it has been incorporated into the software.
Anyway, for now, we have a remarkable tool to get data on our upcoming travels with Delta. – René
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I love stuff like this… nerd alert!
I remember back when the only tools I could find to book my own tickets was something called eaasysabre, early 1990s for sure (a travel agent/end user focused tool for AA but booked others too) and United’s first software based booking tool maybe 1995ish.
I’m a total nerd about things like this and always interesting to see so much data that wasn’t offerred up without being an airline agent.
Eaasysabre for sure was the best. Itatravelmatrix is the closest to what Eaasysabre was. If you know shortcodes and switches to a query line, you could uncover all sorts of things.
Thanks for sharing the pnr tool. Going to check it out now.
You are very close to running it locally! Install Go 1.18 from their downloads (it’s a beta version at the bottom of the downloads), and then run “go run ./cmd” from the main directory of pnrsh-main. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080 and it should be running on your computer.
@pnr – Trying. AVG anti-virus is blocking me now. Grr…
@pnr – Well tested with 1.18 b2 and try to run and nothing happens with antivirus off. Still doing something wrong.
@pnr – OK got it running. Thanks again. Hope Delta takes their time “fixing” things 😉
There is no way that they’ll continue to allow access to remarks. This area is often used by airline agents to communicate with each other about a passenger, and usually not in a good way. It could be a heads-up to the gate agent about a person who was disruptive at the counter, for example. Someone who was verbally abusive that an agent suspects of being drunk and in need of further evaluation to decide if they should be allowed to board or not. Any number of potential reasons to document something observed, all of which could be classified as proprietary internal communication.
Thanks! I just read some nasty comments an agent wrote about me when I had called in about an upcoming flight.
@Frankie – That is hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
For Chris, this is a Mac installer package of Go 17.8 available at go[dot]dev
Hmm I wonder if I can access my last flight. The fa was a tyrant and I made it a point to call her on it. Wonder if got put in there?
@DLSilver – Doubt an FA hand unit would show up here plus once a flight is done you will not be able to pull it up anymore (or at least after the day ends).
Wow can’t wait to try it!!Thanks
Thank you. Now I can see exactly what happened with my upcoming reservation – the bad and finally the good. Hope they keep us being able to use it!
Can any one share the opensource? I could help you get it going in return.