Originally Posted by
Europeanexplorer
I don't think it is a Business Class fare. These are the fare rules:
"RULE APPLICATION AND OTHER CONDITIONS...
...NORMAL FARES FROM CAN TO BKK
APPLICATION
AREA
THESE FARES APPLY
FROM CAN
TO WITHIN SOUTH ASIAN SUBCONTINENT.
CLASS OF SERVICE
THESE FARES APPLY FOR ECONOMY CLASS SERVICE.
TYPES OF TRANSPORTATION
THIS RULE GOVERNS ROUND-TRIP FARES.
FARES GOVERNED BY THIS RULE CAN BE USED TO CREATE
ROUND-TRIP/CIRCLE-TRIP/TURNAROUND SINGLE OPEN-JAW
JOURNEYS...."
Looks like ITA mistakenly thinks the *D* fare class is in Business. EF has the same problem too.
It looks like they loaded the informational text (not valid for autopricing) for a CAN-BKK economy fare and pasted that text into the fare rules for a HGH-DEL D fare. So my read is that it's a business-class fare that contains some incorrectly copied & pasted metadata.
Hint is that HGH-DEL is not CAN-BKK.
D is a business-class booking class (look for example at a LON-ADD D fare to see this for yourself).
Or check out the routing rules for this fare:
V FARE BASIS BK FARE TRAVEL-TICKET AP MINMAX RTG
1 DEERTCN D R 1286.00 D30JN - -/ - EH01
PASSENGER TYPE-ADT AUTO PRICE-YES
FROM-HGH TO-DEL CXR-ET TVL-04JUN13 RULE-CN01 IPRPG/8
FARE BASIS-DEERTCN NORMAL FARE DIS-N VENDOR-ATP
FARE TYPE-BU RT-BUSINESS CLASS UNRESTRICTED
CNY 7875 0018 E04JUN13 D30JUN13 FC-DEERTCN FN-1P
SYSTEM DATES - CREATED 03JUN13/0941 EXPIRES INFINITY
PUBLISHED RTG HGH-DEL/ET18 /TAR-TGRG EF-04JUN13 DIS-INDEF
/WITHIN THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE/
TRAVEL MUST BE DIRECT
By the way, does someone have access to a feed of raw fare data? This has only been published for a little over 24 hours.