Determine AC fare class before buying ticket
Dec 15, 2019, 9:40 pm
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Determine AC fare class before buying ticket
On AC website, how can you easily see a fare class before purchase. All I see is standard and flex economy and business. They when you look at ticket before purchase it says tango etc but no fare class. I need to confirm fare class as it impacts the new mileage plus points.
Dec 15, 2019, 10:21 pm
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On AC website, how can you easily see a fare class before purchase. All I see is standard and flex economy and business. They when you look at ticket before purchase it says tango etc but no fare class. I need to confirm fare class as it impacts the new mileage plus points.
Dec 16, 2019, 4:47 am
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On AC website, how can you easily see a fare class before purchase. All I see is standard and flex economy and business. They when you look at ticket before purchase it says tango etc but no fare class. I need to confirm fare class as it impacts the new mileage plus points.
I think Standard usually becomes T, Flex to Q, and Comfort to U or M. So if you buy Standard M, it may only show up as T on UA etc.
YMMV (literally)
Dec 16, 2019, 9:09 am
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That's not corect. You need to go further doen the process, pick all your flights, get to the page where you get a price. There, on the right there is a red heading saying, for instance "Business class) with on the right, in black, the price of the corresponding segment. Click on the red "Busielss class (lowest)" or whatever,
Then you get a page with, on the top right, "See complete fare rules." click on that. Then the last line of the top block is:
FCL: ZRC0 TRF: 864 RULE: ACFR BK: Z
Meaning that this is a Z fare, specifically ZRC0.
For economy fares, there should be the fare class, and the AC bin it falls within (Standard, flex, cComfort, "you are cheap and want to suffer," Latitude, whatever).
Then you get a page with, on the top right, "See complete fare rules." click on that. Then the last line of the top block is:
FCL: ZRC0 TRF: 864 RULE: ACFR BK: Z
For economy fares, there should be the fare class, and the AC bin it falls within (Standard, flex, cComfort, "you are cheap and want to suffer," Latitude, whatever).
Dec 16, 2019, 9:17 am
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Fare class
Dec 16, 2019, 11:11 am
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That screenshot was from the last page of a booking where you have a price. You don't need the full fare rules and basis code to get the fare class. After clicking the details popup you'll see the fare class (in this case K). That does not necessarily help understand what it maps to for a different carrier.
Fare class
Fare class
Actually it is from the same page I was mentioning, you refer to the "Detials" on the right side of the left box. I was referring to the fare mentioned on the right, which entails a couple more clicks but gives more details.
For instance: H1WLCFL, which shows it's H *and* it's Flex.