Hi beyounged and everyone who's been contributing to this thread - I've spent quite a bit of time working on an itinerary and like yourself, I saw that higher fare buckets (Y specifically) will throw up legs in I or Z for certain carriers - impossible to book though and the Y itinerary I was looking at was pricing circa €1200. So what I did was force the SYD-SCL segment to bc=I in Matrix then that will allow your first sector throughout to be booked into I Class - fare basis IEXEV00V, my LIM-TYO is on an X Basis. The fare rules are so flexible you can even route onto SQ and others. For me I wanted to fly OneWorld to I've got CX, QF, LA, BA and JL, including tax just shy of €2000 / 590 TP / 31000 Avios.
Ticketing - use PowerTools, AA will happily take your money or alternatively - like I did - use LAN but you'll need to tweak powertools - have a look at the thread on it.
Hope all the above helps - definitely jump in if you can.
If anyone can help me with seat selection on LIM-MAD on LAN that would be great.
Last edited by our_kid; Apr 29, 2018 at 8:27 am
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