Booking Class Alignment

Old Apr 20, 2004, 7:17 am
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Booking Class Alignment

Air Canada (AC)
BC: J C D S
EC: Y M B H V T N Q L Z W E G I K R U X

Air New Zealand (NZ)
FC: F A O
BC: C D I R Z U
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W L T

All Nippon Airways (NH)
FC: F A O
BC: C D I J
EC: Y B M X N W K L S T G

Asiana Airlines (OZ)
FC: F A P O
BC: C D I R J Z
EC: U Y E B M H Q V F K W G L T X N

Austrian (OS)
BC: C D I R
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W G S

British midland (BD) - short haul
BC: C D I R J
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S K G T E O

British midland (BD) - long haul
BC: C D I R J
EC: U L Z Y B M H Q X N V W T

LOT Polish Airlines (LO)
BC: J C D Z I W
EC: Y M L H K B V G Q

Lufthansa (LH)
FC: F A O
BC: C D I R Z
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W E S Z

Scandinavian Airlines (SK)
BC: C D I R A J Z
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W G K O T

Singapore Airlines (SQ)
FC: F A O P
BC: C D I J Z
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W U E G K T

Spanair (JK)
BC: C D I R J
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S L T G

Thai Airways International (TG)
FC: F A P O Z
BC: C D I R J
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S L T G K

United Airlines (UA)
FC: F A P O
BC: C D I
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S L T G

VARIG (RG)
FC: F A P O
BC: C D I R J Z
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S L T G

Explanations:
FC: First Code
BC: Business Code
EC: Economy Code
Letters in regular faces: *A common booking class alignment (all *A members other than AC & LO are aligned)
Letters in bold faces: carrier specific exceptions
Letters in italics: FFP Redemption Codes

Source: Reference Guide for Employees of Star Alliance Member Carriers, Seventh Edition.
 
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For SK you can add S between Y and M. Personally I have never seen O on SK. Nice job.
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^ ^ ^ excellent
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Old Apr 20, 2004, 12:44 pm
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For SK you can add S between Y and M. Personally I have never seen O on SK. Nice job.
Also L can be added to the end of the list. These are deeply discounted promotional fares!
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With Lufthansa you left K,L,T and G out in Eco and Z is Business only AFAIK.
R.N and E is employee travel.
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Thanks for the positive response, folks!

I opened this thread on continuous special requests from some fellow flyertalker within the last half year.

I see the strength in this compilation to know about the quality of a specific booking class, especially for mileage/voucher redemption purposes. The weakness, that this list is already outdated. My source is the latest printed addition of the *A product & service guide I have access to (unfortunately - as peter42 pointed out - there are typing errors). If I gain access to an updated edition, I will edit the opener, but as the system is so volatile and there are individual exceptions all the time, I stick to this product.

IMO for individual needs on specific flights the best source available for the general public I know is this availability tool.
 
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I think this should be made a sticky thread
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