Originally Posted by
thezipper
it all depends... with our agency, one may "book" the YCA via the online res system, but before the agency tickets, they check if _CA is avail and ticket in the lowest fare class. I've had several colleagues who used to book YCA to europe and upgrade (if avail) for 15k miles... now their tickets are being booked in _CA, it has become 20k + $$$ co-pay.
To clarify, this is not an issue of whether the discount _CA fare bucket happens to be open and available for a given flight. Rather, the GSA website which lists all the successfully negotiated fares for the current fiscal year only shows a YCA fare negotiated for that city pair, with no _CA fare in existence. I had not seen this before.