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Old Feb 4, 2018 | 9:46 pm
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Originally Posted by Calchas
PM me your flights and I'll take a look.


I don't think so. I could be wrong, but I have seen a lot of fares, and the price and the rules seem reasonable enough to me. Not every good deal is a mistake.


Miscalculation of the YR/YQ doesn't make it an error fare. (I suppose you could argue that the whole ticket is mispriced, although we have no idea how YQ/YR logic works since it is proprietary---but either way, that doesn't make the fare itself a mistake.)


SEL-SCL great circle is 11,403 miles. There's no direct LA flight from South America to Asia; you're flying via Australia or North America. So I think this is not unreasonable.


A lot of carriers stopped doing HIP checks. You're right, it is not mentioned in the rules I can see. But unusual for ITA to make such a fundamental mistake.


LA is limited to sixteen segments. This is in common with most other carriers. More segments will require paper coupons, and those are not generally accepted any more. You are also limited to three stopovers (if we are looking at the same fare) which for many travellers is a show-stopper.

I would imagine LA has little experience with mileage runners and gamification of their products is probably low on their list of concerns.


Propeller lost their BA ticketing authority for a while over a number of people dropping segments, that is why they are nervous. Are you sure you can't book SEL-SCL-SEL for a similar price?

If we are talking about the same fare, it doesn't appear to be stock-restricted. One of the other carriers on your journey may be willing to issue the ticket.



If we're talking about LA SELSCL IEXEV00Q, it is not scheduled to expire.

V FARE BASIS BK FARE TRAVEL-TICKET AP MINMAX RTG
1 IEXEV00Q I R 3367.00 ---- -/‡ -/12M AT01
PASSENGER TYPE-ADT AUTO PRICE-YES
FROM-SEL TO-SCL CXR-LA TVL-04FEB18 RULE-JEVQ IPRSAA3/29
FARE BASIS-IEXEV00Q NORMAL FARE DIS-E VENDOR-ATP
FARE TYPE-BR RT-BUSINESS CLASS RESTRICTED
KRW 3603677 MPM E30DEC17 D-INFINITY FC-IEXEV00Q FN-
SYSTEM DATES - CREATED 29DEC17/1018 EXPIRES INFINITY
Oh I think you mistook the Biz deal with the econ one. I think a 175USD base fare that allows 3 stopovers and MPM of 18k miles with no YQ or YR just sounds very glitch-esque for me. What makes this ticket attractive is the SEL-SCL outbound missing the 345USD YQ, and the SCL-TYO inbound to have 1 free stopover and very low base fare. When you combine these two, while routing through Europe, you get very low total fares. Another point that attracts me is that it includes very farflung places that I would love to visit for free. I think LA has little experience with this type of mileage runs, as when I did the simpler (but still <3cpm) run in Dec, the agent does not even know what is happening when she handed me my 4 boarding passes. As psbaj mentioned, I am looking at NLXSP30V outbound, and XLELE00B, VLELE00B, etc, (in N class a few similar fares are available) for the inbound, not in I or C class. However, during preliminary research a few months back, I could mix cabins for I class inbound on LA and CX metal for sub 2.2k USD, but I gave up on that thought quickly as I knew it would be impossible to book.

I have also PM'ed you with some findings.
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