Originally Posted by
Sykes
Hi all,
I haven't yet seen any report of this yet, but United released some guidance to travel agents. Here are the interesting bits:
They also say that the Basic Economy fare basis will end in -BN, and will have an endorsement of "NONREF/NOCHGS/NOCBBG/NOASR"
So, they'll book into N, but it will also check the availability of a corresponding non-Basic Economy fare, which enables some form of fare differential pricing. Basically it sounds like they are going to work in a similar way to how the -UP fares work for premium cabin fares.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, I think you are saying they can make any fare basic economy if it happens to be the lowest bucket available? So something like E could be super expensive basic economy? I hope the fact that it is basic economy is clearly stated. It is almost impossible to read the fare rules and tell anything.