Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
Married sectors are for availability - not for fares
With married sector availability, it may be possible that A-B has I class available and B-C has I class available but A-C via B does not have availability
For the fares , for A-C via B , travelling part way in ecomony and part way in business would not be any cheaper than business the whole way
If someone has LGW-DXB-BKK, it would need to change the booking to LGW-DXB and DXB-BKK as 2 separate fares to have them in different classes. If on a through fare., the whole journey will be charged as a business class fare
You be patronising, but I do know what married sector logic is
from IATA glossary
Married segments is a term used to identify two or more segments in an itinerary which are actioned as a single unit (set). Acceptance and sending of marriage information is controlled by bilateral agreements. See IATA Recommended Practice 1777 and 1777a.
As I mentioned EK publishes no such fares, where one can carry LGW-DXB and DXB-BKK on a single ticket. fare rules prohibit this. Availability is indeed per-leg, married segment logic means that the lowest common fare bucket across the segment applies to all legs, so e.g. LGW-DXB has B availability and DXB-BKK has L availability (which is a much cheaper fare), it is not possible to ticket LGW-BKK on B+L, it has to all be in B, equally you cannot ticket LGW-DXB in J, I, O, P or any other business class fare, and have DXB-BKK in a lower fare bucket. It's all set out in the document with actual examples given.