*A Flyer

That is unfair. yyzprincess has made it clear that there are options available and is leaving clues as to what they are however it is unfair to expect someone for whom these fares are very important in terms of business productivity and profitability to go giving away the info that may make these fares disappear.

Mileage running is about hard work as well as good deals so I say to you LOOK IT UP OR SHUT UP.

zvezda

As the poster of the original ex-CMB thread which led to thousands of premium MRs and to so many of these fares coming to an end, I ask everyone to lay off yyzprincess. She has contributed a lot more here than most.

cesco.g

For those not checking the UA forum that often: Thanksgiving business class special on UA. Sample NYC-AMS-NYC $ 1275 all-in, booking class Z.

More here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=738942

erik123

You could've kept it to yourself and a small band of 'honest' insiders - that seems to be the suggestion.

I would suggest that comments on what we should/shouldn't do be moved to a separate thread in the discussion forum so we can stick to just posting fare information in this thread.

brahms77

Isn't FT about information sharing? Nonetheless, it's any FTer's choice to share information about these new and old fares that are great value for the money, but one should not accuse others who utilize the information on these boards for the consequence of fare increase, etc. Like mistake fares, these good deal premium fares will someday disappear (thanks to the global economics, supply and demand, etc.) and I think most of us here will just have to "deal" with it when certain fares become unavailable or are subject to significant increase (which they ought to be in the first place). I am not saying this because I felt outcasted from this circle of "trusted" FTers or wanted to criticize yyzprincess for her "coyness" but I wanted to just make my personal remarks having had observed many posts on this thread and my frustration with how people are trying to make such thing exclusive for a selected few.

Nonetheless, I agree that people should work for what they get and that for the spirit of FT community, I would think that the term "work" should be dedicated to building the trust with other FTers and knowledge about frequent traveler programs so that a now-a-novice FTer can help another new FTer down the road.

End of comment.

kyushuman

I agree with you--many of these fares went away NOT because of FT, but because airlines realized they were wrongly-priced compared to their other premium products.
Did SOME fares disappear because of FTers rudeness/stupidity? Yes.
Do some FTers keep some fares quiet because of that? Yes, and I can see why.
That said, it's ironic that those same FTers are still benefitting from others' sharing to everyone on FT, while they will only share with their "trusted friends". Maybe they should vow to never purchase mistake fares that they and their "trusted friends" haven't found themselves??

yyzprincess

I standby my decision to share the info with select few FT.
Having posted my concerns about FT members calling airlines and flaging the Good Deal Fares many many times on this forum one can imaging my surprise when a veteran poster posted below post on another forum.And my response.

Now I have concerns about sharing my Good Deal fares with veteran posters this poster is friendly with.
Especially the 380 First Class Good Deal Fare.
I want the FT posters that have in past help me to have an opportunity to take advantage of this Good Deal Fare as well as my family and friends.

The group of FT that I share info on Good Deal Premium fares, typicall do not care about mistake fares or are interested in taking advantage of them.As Mistake fares have no flexiblity.

Case in point:
I saw the UA mistake fare on saturday morning, I could have booked it.

When I crunched the numbers, (I do that before I even consider taking advantage of a mistake fare), getting from YYZ-LAX/SFO-YYZ it came to USD. 2K. EQM: 10 cents.

Add to that I had no desire to go to AKL, my business is in MEL & SYD. Which meant additional cost AKL-MEL-AKL. Thus EQM went to 12 cent .
For Business Travel:
I can get Good Deal Premium fares to Australia for 11cent a EQM. With flexibility to cancel, change. I have been able to get a Good Deal fare to Australia via SIN & SYD , with SIN-SYD sector in 380 First suites(with the "R" surcharge) for 15cent an EQM.

For Purely MR:
There are Good Deal fares that can be had for under 8 cent per EQM with flexibilty to change and cancel. And on UA metal if one's heart is set on trying UA J-Cabin.

The LAX/SFO -AKL for pure MR came in at .8 cent an EQM. With no flexibility of change.

I have yet to read about mistake fare that offers a better deal than Good Deal fares out there in terms of value & flexibility.

ajinlondon

Bit of a sweeping statement. Considering the AKL fares do.

kyushuman

yyzprincess, I'm definitely playing devil's advocate here--your explanation that FTers using valid, non-mistake premium fares sometimes scream and make life difficult for the issuing airline, encouraging them to pull the fare--does happen.

Still, it would seem to me that, since this is an open, public forum, you should also only USE fares that your family and friends, and those who have helped you before, find and tell you about secretly, right?

ajinlondon

There is always going to be people who think fares should be posted on FT and others who think they should be kept quiet to ensure they live longer. I am of the opinion that people should go out and look for fares themselves.

If all of people who have contributed to this thread spent a day looking for a "good deal" they would find a good deal - it's not that hard once you get into it. But for the people who sit around waiting for it to be printed in B/W and not actively seek fares themselves then AFAIK then don't be suprised when people react like this.

harryhv

AHEM - FARE POST
At last one for the Europe-Aus and Europe-Asia crowd:

MEL/BNE/SYD from MAN, ABZ and non-London UK ports £650 (USD1300) each way all-in on Airfrance.com via CDG all in J (D fare unrestricted/changeable/refundable), midweek incl high-season, weekends £100 more, patchy availability for SYD but MEL is wide open

and equally good
SIN from MAN/ABZ/BRS and anywhere but London for £511 (USD1000) each way all-in, J fare unrestricted/changeable/refundable.
Any day through EOS

Derived from This thread from simonnewby

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yyzprincess

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yyzprincess

I agree if one is willing to put in some work, very easy to come across a Good Deal Premium fares.
Thank you for making that point.^

mechteach

Just wanted to point out what I think is a minor miscommunication....I think that ajinlondon was saying that the AKL fares do have flexibility in changing their dates (which is true to some extent), not that the AKL fares facilitate going to a flyertalk "Do." Not that this is the case for this instance, but it's always fun to have an English-language board with multi-lingual posters, and then to add the own peculiar lingo of that board into the mix. [[Oops, it looks like as I was posting this, yyzprincess was already editing that thread - sorry!]]

Also, in response to the rest of your post, yyzprincess: I agree with you that it's best to help out those who also help others. However, I think that there are a lot of valuable contributors to FT who don't necessarily find and post Good Deal threads - some people help with posting fare rules, others help with varied routings, and others know useful rules and customer service contacts at a given airline. I'm not sure if you were excluding those folks from your "helpful" list, but I think that their contributions are important to the overall success of FT and the MR forums.

kyushuman

Thanks for the clarification! I think the reason some people were so critical of you was that your posts were sometimes so vague that it seemed you were trying to tease/incite people, then refused to "hand over the goods" publicly. Now I get it!
I do appreciate the info you've shared here--and I agree with you that some folks here have ruined some of the fares--though for some of them, with more people using them, got the airlines to notice them more than FTers' behavior.