Originally Posted by
EDDMflyer
Iīm not that familiar with the 241, but isnīt the first letter of the fare base usually the booking class? Never heard of a fare base used like that where the first 2 letters are the IATA Airline-Code. How can you read the BAFM01 farebase? BA for the Airline, F for First, what does that M01 stand for?
Usually, but not always. For example, the ex-EU I class fares talked about a lot here have fare bases starting with I (eg INCEU28) but book into J class on the short-haul intra-Europe flights.
As it's an award ticket, I suspect that the airline can do what it likes with the "fare basis".
My guess is that "BA" does stand for British Airways, because I've seen BAEC awards for partner airline start "PA", possibly for "partner".
But F does not stand for First. I see BAFM01 on the shortest short-haul economy awards.
ISTR that the last two digits have something to do with the length of the flight
But that's about all I can speculate about.