Originally Posted by
minnyfly
I can buy an E fare on DL for tomorrow's MSP-ORD flights. I can buy it on a T fare a couple days out that's currently the most expensive flight of the day. We don't even know for sure how UA will handle close-in bookings yet. Your claim that UA is doing something fundamentally different is completely made up and erroneous. All they are doing so far is allowing BE on more fare classes. You have nothing.
Delta is Matching the Spirit flights with a BE fare. If you look at other (higher priced) Delta flights e.g. the 5:40 pm, they price out as regular Y.
But you are right, there is no "advanced" purchase requirement, since DL is matching Spirit on the head to head flights when the lower buckets are available.
But looking April 17 the lowest UA fare is $58 o/w and its Y, looking at April 18, its still $58 o/w but is BE, with a $15 upsell offer.
So that (1) shows UA is not limiting these to 14 days, and (2) that it is pure unbundling, offering less with an upsell, for the same price.
