Originally Posted by
transportprof
The LAX-YVR leg had options for both UX (CRJ-700) and AC (E-190), and I booked the the AC metal as timing plus equipment were both preferable. AC's business class is far better than the UX offering, too.
It's a mixed bag in F between AC's larger RJs and UA ExPlus. My last F flight on the AC CRJ7 featured a seat adjacent to the lav (which never happens on UAX F) and a "meal" I would have gladly exchanged for a snack box.
Originally Posted by
transportprof
For those of you who haven't flown an Air Canada E190 before, every seat comes with AVOD and power, via a USB port.
Eh,
sort of, if it's anything like the equipment on the Air Canada CRJ7s. The AVOD is pretty lousy (our FA warned it may take several minutes to respond to inputs) and the power is not particularly usable (my 1A had the power port angled toward the floor with loose contacts = any plug of non-trivial weight just falls out).
Originally Posted by
Xyzzy
It seems that this is a matter of policy. Customer service told me this:The fare bucket displayed in the 'Fare Class' box in the search results at the time of purchase was P. The travel agent invoice shows "Class BUSINESS/BUSFIRST." In fact, now that I'm finally looking more into the details of this I find that the
ONLY place where it says anything that could lead one to think that the purchased travel is in economy class is in the "eTicket Receipt" that says this for the flights in question:...And the
nly part of that is the "
V" at the start of the last line which I happen to know is for an economy fare. Of course, I never bothered to look at the fare basis as what was purchased was presented to me as a "P" fare. At
every point in the process -- purchase, confirmation, and receipt details -- it refers to the travel as being in "BUSINESS/BUSFIRST." The actual fare basis was never displayed except in that one line of the receipt and even that doesn't actually say the word "economy."
Is the carrier or TA transforming a P booking class to the BUSINESS/BUSFIRST string?