Originally Posted by
cesco.g
Would that (up to 60%) be off high-fare e.g. J, C booking classes, or even include lower P, Z, D booking codes as well?
off full fare. discounts used to be (pre- "changes you will like") lower, but are now for certain accounts 50+%. And yes, OALs have discounts as well, but I don't know of them offering the kind of steep discounts UA is offering at this point (DL is not, nor to my knowledge is AA, but perhaps someone has seen them).
Let me give an e.g. lets say I need to go SFO-LHR week after next fare is $10,069 on UA, $10,455 on VS, and $10,457 on BA. If I have a corporate rate with Apple (just as an e.g.) then the actual ticket is more like $4500 on UA. (They have a discount with delta as well, but my understanding is that it is not as deep).
However, if I look out at Thursday March 29 - Thursday April 5, I get fares of $3612 on UA, $3850 on VS/BA, but these P fares are likely to only get a 10% or so discount.