Originally Posted by
JS_SFO
I called the 1K line and got a price for up-faring to W, but she said that both the SFO-EWR and EWR-BCN legs need to be up-fared. Since the upgrade has zero chance of clearing on SFO-EWR anyway, and the EWR-BCN leg is R9 and W9, it seems like a waste to pay for the up-fare on both legs.
Would it work to call back once they are in EWR and ask to up-fare just the final EWR-BCN leg? I know I'd be taking the risk that the flight is R0 and W0 at that point. But my question is whether there is any way to know ahead of time whether paying for the up-fare from T to W on one leg rather than two is cheaper?
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Originally Posted by
findark
To change only EWR-BCN to W would require inserting a fare break in EWR, which would almost certainly be more expensive than changing the entire ticket (with normal combinability rules, to keep this all on the same ticket, you would probably end up with EWR-BCN in B or full Y).
findark is correct. I used ITA Matrix to put together a sample itinerary. Here are some prices I found for outbound Wed 9/13, return Thu 9/21, assuming that only the outbound is to be up-fared.
- Baseline (all T class): $1283.26, going through EWR in both directions.
- Option 1: Fix the EWR-BCN flight to W, allow SFO-EWR to price automatically: $1393.26, using a W fare from SFO-BCN and a T fare from BCN-SFO.
- Option 2: Fix the SFO-EWR flight to T and the EWR-BCN flight to W+: $5555.26, using a T fare from SFO-EWR, a Y fare from EWR-BCN, and a Y fare from BCN-SFO.
In order to get a combinable EWR-BCN fare, you had to go all the way up to Y... in both directions. May as well just list them with the GPU all the way through. You never know; maybe there will be a bunch of cancellations or something.
