Noticed that the CX online booking engine has finally moved ahead to catch up to others online booking. Now when booking a flight, a matrix comes up showing the lowest fare for a outbound and inbound combination. Similar to the VS engine.

However, I found that it is still buggy. When looking at a fare to the UK, it gave me a lowest fare of $5,900 which is a valid fare for that date combination. When I proceeded, it only showed fares of $9,000+. If I went back, then the fare had changed for that day to the higher fare. So looks like the matrix is not checking seat availability correctly.

Also noticed that CX has now given names to its fare subclasses: Economy Super Saver / Save / Special / Core / Standard / Flex. And they are noting that advance seat reservation is available to all Y pax except for the cheapest fares.

https://www.cathaypacific.com/cpa/en...king/faretypes