UA now matching EU fares $400-500
Nov 22, 2016, 5:20 pm
#17
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The V booking part wouldn't surprise me as being a mistake. Some of these fares are still alive but in the K class (SEA-Europe).
Nov 22, 2016, 5:37 pm
#18
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SEA seems to have been pulled as well, same issue as the smaller airports before. Google Flights shows it, but click through triples the price. Mystery why KL stays around and UA doesn't. Wasn't this active over the weekend as well, then it went away Monday and now it was back again for a couple of hours? Seems like an error on the UA side to me, especially given the V fare.
Nov 22, 2016, 5:38 pm
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SEA seems to have been pulled as well, same issue as the smaller airports before. Google Flights shows it, but click through triples the price. Mystery why KL stays around and UA doesn't. Wasn't this active over the weekend as well, then it went away Monday and now it was back again for a couple of hours? Seems like an error on the UA side to me, especially given the V fare.
Nov 22, 2016, 7:32 pm
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For the V fare, I assume fat finger could be it. For the overall match to OW / ST, it doesn't make much sense though to do this on again off again type matching that *A seems to be doing here over the last couple of days.
Nov 22, 2016, 10:47 pm
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This was quite a sale.
My belief is that United intended to match Delta's fare sale (DL published a bunch of fares like BOS-MAD round trip $90 base fare, fare class VLI67US; UA published a bunch of similar round-trip $100 base fares). But I'm not 100% sure whether they intended to match Delta's booking class letter-for-letter. Seems like they pointed a big ol' cannon at the competition there.
At any rate it was nice that Delta's sale was Global Upgrade Certificate eligible (DL V fares count!) and United's sale was Global Premier Upgrade eligible (UA V fares count as well).
My belief is that United intended to match Delta's fare sale (DL published a bunch of fares like BOS-MAD round trip $90 base fare, fare class VLI67US; UA published a bunch of similar round-trip $100 base fares). But I'm not 100% sure whether they intended to match Delta's booking class letter-for-letter. Seems like they pointed a big ol' cannon at the competition there.
At any rate it was nice that Delta's sale was Global Upgrade Certificate eligible (DL V fares count!) and United's sale was Global Premier Upgrade eligible (UA V fares count as well).
Nov 23, 2016, 7:17 am
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There are still some crumbs available.
Looks like fare buckets in certain TATL legs are all out. Seeing code-shares with VS and AF available for the specific itin, plus a couple of DL TATL segments to MSP out of AMS and CDG.
I'm looking at early April, btw.
Also, to correct my earlier post about not seeing availability beyond mar 31st - my mistake, it's there... the itin I was trying to price out would have not had a Sat night at the destination. Didn't think of that at the time!
Looks like fare buckets in certain TATL legs are all out. Seeing code-shares with VS and AF available for the specific itin, plus a couple of DL TATL segments to MSP out of AMS and CDG.
I'm looking at early April, btw.
Also, to correct my earlier post about not seeing availability beyond mar 31st - my mistake, it's there... the itin I was trying to price out would have not had a Sat night at the destination. Didn't think of that at the time!