Originally Posted by
courtster
I believe if you go through the booking process, you get to the price summary there will be an option to 'increase flexibility for £XXX'
Then when you see the new summary you can click on your flight numbers and see the new fare bucket.
I don't think this will solve the OP's problem. It will move him to a higher fare bucket, but probably not the one he wants.
Originally Posted by
Jenbel
Use a travel agent? When I need a specific fare bucket, I tend to forego booking online and go to the travel agent I have access to through my bank account. The nice thing is that they offer a 10% discount which means it costs about the same as booking online...
Absolutely. I often needed to do this when I flew on UA as a transatlantic academic I wanted to book into B class. Generally this wasn't terribly expensive (around £500-£600 for a TATL) so I could get it paid for without a lot of fuss from some university or NSF grant or whatnot and made a miles upgrade to C cheap and easy. I always went to the secret section of STA travel that handled academics (rather than students) where there was no queue.
As for the 10% thingy, I used to have an RBS account of some kind that gave such a discount. Around 2004 it did genuinely work out about 10% cheaper than booking on ba.com but then all the TA fares went up so that the 10% discounted fare was higher than the ba.com fare. I don't have the account any more as a result.