Originally Posted by
helvetic
I almost never book Basic Economy (and have the app set not to show me Basic Economy results)… but today came across this differential, which is a tad more than the usual $25 upsell.
What is going on?
Is this a close-in flight?
There have been a few examples of this, where UA is trying to compete with a low-cost ULCC fare without destroying their pricing power for business travelers. So far, they've all been 0-advance purchase G-BN or K-BN fares that don't have a corresponding regular economy fare.
Basically, it's an example of UA attempting to use BE for what they said it was for -- ULCC competition -- instead of simply as a fare increase.