Originally Posted by
nigelw
Travel a lot.. Scalping as in taking snippets from webpages. So have program that takes info from webpages about all forthcoming flights and puts it all into one easy to read spreadsheet that can then be worked upon. Just would have been easier to program if the fare basis code had been on same page as the booking on ba.com.
Don't have time to call to get fare basis code, and also the idea is to automate all of it.
And they used to include it, so have pro-actively decided to take it out. The cynical might think it is to try to make it harder to use programming to change flexible bookings to inflexible closer to the time of flight to save a few pennies. The non-cynical might think it is because they assume (maybe correctly) that no one wants to see it
Or it simply didn't occur to them to include it again when they redesigned it. The number of people interested in such things are so miniscule it's probably not even worth BAs time to even think about it - let alone come up with some kind of plot to prevent you and one or two others using it to switch from flexible to non flexible.