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Old Nov 23, 2007, 12:46 am
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NEW AWARD booking classes.
I apologise in advance if this has been discussed. I did do a search.
Ive been researching F award tickets on the BA website and ahve been coming up with availability but when i call QFF they say NUP!

I did know the booking classes had changed so asked the question and sure enough

Z is now premium eco and F is now P

so its first P Bus U premium eco Z eco X. i do wish BA would get their act together its been driving ,me crazy!
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Old Nov 23, 2007, 12:28 pm
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Originally Posted by tinkybelle
I apologise in advance if this has been discussed. I did do a search.
Ive been researching F award tickets on the BA website and ahve been coming up with availability but when i call QFF they say NUP!

I did know the booking classes had changed so asked the question and sure enough

Z is now premium eco and F is now P

so its first P Bus U premium eco Z eco X. i do wish BA would get their act together its been driving ,me crazy!
May be related, but I was looking on BA.com for F award flights LAX-MEL for 2008 Jun-Nov (up to the 355 day limit) - not one seat. I find that difficult to believe even for days 355 days out.....could this be an award class transition issue?
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Old Nov 23, 2007, 2:28 pm
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Originally Posted by tinkybelle
I apologise in advance if this has been discussed. I did do a search.
Ive been researching F award tickets on the BA website and ahve been coming up with availability but when i call QFF they say NUP!
If you are a QFF member, why not use the QFF site to search for availability since that does work

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Old Nov 23, 2007, 3:46 pm
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Originally Posted by Dave Noble
If you are a QFF member, why not use the QFF site to search for availability since that does work

Dave
QFF does NOT show CX -BA sometimes does but its often wrong. also I find the BA site much easier as u dont have to check the little boxes with J and F and untick E its a stupid website.
Also when looking for BA what better website than
BA
oh well no seats on either of them but

anyway I did think it was relevent to all here who maybe use seatcounter or another engine!
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Old Nov 23, 2007, 7:11 pm
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First mentioned Oct 12 here by AN_boy.

Code:
Code Old Description                      New Description
  
 P   Discount First class                 First class Award Redemption
 T   Gold/Platinum whY Award redemption   Discount Premium Economy
 W   Discount Ecomony                     Full fare Premium Economy
 X'  (subclass)                           Gold/Platinum whY Award redemption
 Z   First class Award Redemption         Premium Economy award redemption

By Fare Bucket Description

Description                               Old  New   

Discount First class                       P    ? (A?)
Discount Premium Economy                  n/a   T
Economy Flexi Saver domestic fare          W    B (merged into)
Full fare Premium Economy                 n/a   W
First class Award Redemption               Z    P
Gold/Platinum whY Award redemption         T    X' (Subclass)
Premium Economy award redemption          n/a   Z
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Old Nov 23, 2007, 7:20 pm
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Originally Posted by tinkybelle
QFF does NOT show CX
Does that mean having to call to check for CX availability?
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Old Nov 23, 2007, 7:53 pm
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Originally Posted by aurigakb
Does that mean having to call to check for CX availability?
Correct. Or check the CX site but that is only an indication.
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Old Nov 23, 2007, 10:46 pm
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Originally Posted by DownUnderFlyer
Correct. Or check the CX site but that is only an indication.
I've got a BA account and can search CX avail through this also... not sure if you can join online without a flight, but might be worth trying if you search for CX regularly
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Old Nov 24, 2007, 2:56 am
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looks like frequentflyerfriend has not changed their search yet as it is throwing up a lot of F award tix when I check they are not there . when i call qantas they say yes there are premium eco seats available.

what a time waster!
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Old Nov 24, 2007, 6:28 pm
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Originally Posted by AN_Boy
I've got a BA account and can search CX avail through this also... not sure if you can join online without a flight, but might be worth trying if you search for CX regularly

Yup, I managed to join BA, and was able to search CX. Thanks!
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Old Nov 24, 2007, 8:23 pm
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Originally Posted by tinkybelle
looks like frequentflyerfriend has not changed their search yet as it is throwing up a lot of F award tix when I check they are not there . when i call qantas they say yes there are premium eco seats available.

what a time waster!
Wow, I had assumed that frequentflyerfriend had been screen scraping the QF award engine. But it sounds like they have access to the QF buckets. The only place that I know of that provided public viewership of those buckets was via the ITN/GetThere site that Amex used to use. But the Amex site seemed to be switched over to the new version of the GetThere availability service that no longer displayed the hidden inventory a few months ago.

I'm curious as to where they're getting their availability info...
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