Originally Posted by
Starman
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.
While not very common, I've seen it a fair amount of times, so not extremely unusual. Have seen it on transcons as well as shorter-distance city pairs. I assume that it's the airline's decision whether or not they want to negotiate a _CA fare or not.