travellermatt

Going the long way around the world! Should net 23920 EQM banked to UA (I can't see to get any site to show me the fare class, maybe someone more experienced than me can find it!). UA has 100% EQM for all TK fare classes as far as I can see from the united website...

Found via Kayak, bookable on multiple sites, can't see to get it to appear on google flights though!

Dates I searched were 20th Nov to 29th Nov... Nice Thanks Giving get away!

https://www.kayak.com/flights/IAH-TY...578d2444506363

BigE

Check the UA website more carefully: some TK classes (such as W) earn 0%. others earn 50% or 75%. https://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/Mar...spx?ItemId=306

There are probably many threads about looking up fare codes. I usually get them from an ITA search first, though the fare might not exactly match what you see on the OTA due to OTA fees. Some OTAs will eventually let you see the detailed fare rules, and you can tell the booking code based on the first letter of the fare name.

ITA tells me that this fare is probably "P" which earns 0% on UA going forward, assuming it's on TK ticket stock.

krazykanuck

I would be all over this like a cheap suit if it earned at least 50% on UA. Especially since you can structure overnight layovers in IST on both legs. But yeah...ITA says P = 0% on UA. Is there an OTA that displays fare classes? UA's site doesn't seem to be willing to show this flight.

vincewy

This would not even qualify as good airfares, TK is offering JFK-IST-TPE starting $741 ai. For UA, G, W, and P give you 0 mile, even with TK's own M&S P accrues 25% of miles so around 6000 status miles and that's about 16 cpm. You'd be better off flying YYZ-IST-HKG in J for under 10 cpm at the moment.

These days, in order to renew/upgrade your status quickly you'll need to fly J long haul. The days of cheap/easy/quick *G are long gone.

AirCanada881

What dates for yyz-hkg with TK?

dvs7310

Expedia is one of the easier mainstream booking sites that will give you the fare class. ITA Matrix as well, however you can't actually book from there.

TK unfortunately has several very common cheapo fares that don't earn on UA. Only a handful of cities have the cheapest fare in an earning bucket for UA Mileage Plus for USA to Asia routings. (JFK used to, not sure if still so).

As for your assumption that all TK fares earn, unfortunately UA nor most airlines don't post common fares that earn 0% (wish they would, certainly takes any guesswork out for people unfamiliar and increases awareness to be careful if buying cheap tickets on certain airlines - LX and OS are others to be particularly careful of). As mentioned in another post for TK these evil fares are W, G, and P. As far as other fares earning 100%, that would have been the earnings chart for pre-3/1. Right above that you should see a link to click for non-016 ticket stock which will bring up the new post-3/1 reduced level chart.

vincewy

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premi...ng-3126-a.html

It's all over, if no J fares (those under $4000 CAD) then try to do a stopover in IST for over 24 hours and sometimes both segments will default to J fares. Again, not always.

dvs7310

That's a nice little trick when you have the extra day to pull it off. TK is notorious for married segment fare bucket availability which is overridden when you do a full stopover.