Originally Posted by
lensovet
as a side note, can someone explain the corporate fare to me? the fare basis starts with a Y…but the booking code is Z? the fare is labeled as "OW-ECONOMY RESTRICTED"…but actually books into business? huh?
It's a Z fare... or it really should be. For whatever reason, United publishes its domestic non-differential premium fares using Economy basis letters. For the fare
YAZ14UPN, which is a regular published fare, the Z in third position is the booking code, and the UP in sixth/seventh position indicates it's essentially a premium fare. Because it has a Y in first position, the fare header sometimes says "Economy Restricted" or similar and may be categorized as such by your booking engine. But it is, and ought to be treated as, a Z fare for all useful purposes.
The corporate part of the fare is just the
/8N35, which references the corporate discount to the base fare (which is probably 35%).
For more context:
A Comprehensive Look at Domestic First Class Monetization (FCM) on United