uva185
Aug 20, 05, 9:50 pm
I am looking to get 3 tickets from CAE-DCA for travel in mid October. (October 13th - 16th) Currently there is a fare (T fare - $128 before taxes) that would be perfect for my trip (departing on a Thursday and returning on a Sunday) The only problem is the fare is set to expire on October 5th. In the fare rules it lists November 18th - 29th as a blackout date. Does it seem like this fare will be changed to allow bookings through at least the whole month of October? Would US Airways slowly add weekends or all of a sudden add 4 or more weekends to the fare? Thanks!!
chrisw
Aug 20, 05, 10:39 pm
Often parts of fare rules are boilerplate that is seemilgly blindly copied and pasted from a template of some sort. Blackout dates outside the valid travel dates, flight restrictions for flights that don't operate on the routing. It's always possible that US could continue to offer the fare, but I don't think the listed blackout dates make it more/less likely.
whlinder
Aug 21, 05, 7:49 am
Your fare is a US Airways match of an Independence Air fare. If FlyI extends their sale, you can expect US to extend their match of the fare.
The blackout dates are there because the same rule applies to different fares which allow travel during that period. Instead of creating a whole new rule without those blackout dates, US just uses an existing one, knowing that those dates won't apply.