Originally Posted by
COFreqFlyer
Booking an itinerary. Presently only possible to select a booking class for the entire trip. Change it to allow specific booking classes on a per-segment basis.
Example. I want to fly MAF-SYR, which actually results in MAF-IAH-EWR-SYR or MAF-IAH-CLE-SYR. The MAF-IAH segment is ERJ/CRJ, and same for EWR/CLE-SYR. IAH-EWR/CLE, conversely, I want to book in B class. Unless I book the entire trip in B class, even though there are (Q/K/etc) seats available on the ERJ/CRJ segments, I have to take "luck of the draw" on IAH-EWR/CLE on whether it will offer me B or K or Q or M or whatever.
Please make it so I can do per-segment booking classes.
This may work in your favor. What you're actually trying to do is to book SYR-EWR, CLE-SYR and a IAH-MAF r/t in discounted buckets and then add a B IAH-EWR-CLE fare on top. My guess is that the published B fare on the SYR-MAF route is much less expensive than assembling the fare piecemeal as you are suggesting.
Fare rules are mostly defined by the origination and destination points, not all the interim segments.
A very good example is BUF-SFO. There are B fares out there for <$1000 r/t that will book into F on the transcon segments and in Y on the local hop on the Q. The B fare for just EWR-SFO is actually more expensive, and adding on any discounted fare from BUF-EWR would just jack it up even more. So even though you are booking into the more expensive class on the flight that you aren't going to get upgraded on you are still getting the best price.