Originally Posted by
GigoloArt
Thanks guys, I went through the fare rules for all published fares on DUS - HKG and started with the lowest Economy. I looked at the fare rules. I am not really familiar with them so let me ask you.
The only entry in the long list of fare rules where the term "Saver" or "Flex" appears is under "Ticket Endorsement".
Here it would say the following for fare class U (UKE6MDE1):
TICKET ENDORSEMENT UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
THE ORIGINAL AND THE REISSUED TICKET MUST BE ANNOTATED -
NON-END/SKYWARDS FLEX/ - AND - VALID ON EK - AND - CHG OF
RES EUR75 - IN THE ENDORSEMENT BOX.
So this means that the cheapest ticket in Y ex-DUS is already Flex?
Yes, quite possibly. For ex. on my usual DXB-SIN, all fares are flex. If this is indeed the lowest fare, do a dummy booking on ek.com and see what tier miles it shows you.
Originally Posted by
GigoloArt
Another observation I made:
While the fare list populated on EF shows "U" to be the lowest fare class, I can see a couple of fare classes even lower when I look for the flight availability. So for instance:
EK () 56 0 DUS
23/02/11 14:40 DXB
23/02/11 23:59 773
Daily
0% / 57m F2 A2 J4 C4 I4 O7 Y7 E7 R7 W7 M7 B7 U7 K7 H7 Q7 L7 T7 V7 X7
It shows that K, H, Q, L, T, V and X are lower. So why are they not listed in the populated fare overview?
Even though there are other fare buckets, not all fares are published on all routes. For ex. DXB-JFK has only some of the highest fares, same with ex-USA in some instances. Also, some of these are group/ deeply discounted fares etc that aren't normally available.