Originally Posted by
halls120
I flew IAD-SFO-SYD-AKL earlier this year. On the existing site, when I tried to book the first leg domestic first, the second leg BF, and the third leg Y, those were the selections I was offered. When I tried it on the beta site, all I'd get on the third leg was a business ticket. When I ran the booking in reverse, if I started with Y on the AKL-SYD leg, I could never get the new site to show me a BF fare on the SYD-SFO leg - just Y fares.
I just tried the same search on the existing site, and it's now doing the same thing. So I guess mixing fares on an itinerary is now consistent on both sites.
Ran the search on the new site, and if you choose F/BF to SYD, the only seat you get offered on SYD-AKL is Business. If on the return you choose economy on AKL-SYD, you can't choose BF on the SYD-SFO leg.
I wonder if this is on purpose to avoid having people save money. I recently saved a chunk of change by booking the short leg of my ORD-YYZ-LHR in E . For that length I didn't care and in the end the upgrade came through.