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Dec 16, 2018, 3:00 am

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Calchas

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American Airlines has made the following change to their booking codes table for all A- fares, including the AONEx series:

Code:

>$LB14/BA                                                      
014 LONLON 16DEC18 AA GBP 9595.00 AONE3    STAY---/12MBK-A     
FARE CLS  EXPLANATION                            BOOK CODES    
--------  ----------------------                 ----------    
AONE3     FIRST CLASS AROUND THE WORLD FARES        A          
AONE3     APPLIES FOR ROUND TRIP FARES                         
AONE3     FOR ADULT                                            
                                                               
BOOKING CODE EXCEPTIONS FOR CARRIER: BA                        
   VIA BA                      NO BOOKING CODE DATA EXISTS  FLTS
                               4130-4149                       
   VIA BA                      NO BOOKING CODE DATA EXISTS  FLTS
                               4550-4579                       
IF VIA AA                      A- FARES                        
   VIA BA  F     REQUIRED      BETWEEN LON-DXB                 
IF VIA AA                      A- FARES                        
   VIA BA  F     REQUIRED      BETWEEN LON-BOS

This requires the use of F class on LON-DXB and LON-BOS.

[snipped other exceptions]

Iberia, Cathay Pacific, and Qantas have done likewise. I haven't checked anyone else.

BA has injected some wording about requiring A class (which seems superfluous as there is no exception to require F class yet):

Code:

>$LB14                                                         
014 LONLON 16DEC18 BA GBP 9595.00 AONE3    STAY---/12MBK-A     
FARE CLS  EXPLANATION                            BOOK CODES    
--------  ----------------------                 ----------    
AONE3     FIRST CLASS AROUND THE WORLD FARES        A          
AONE3     APPLIES FOR ROUND TRIP FARES                         
                                                               
 BOOKING CODE EXCEPTIONS                                       
   VIA BA  A     REQUIRED      A- FARES  BETWEEN LON-DXB       
                               13DEC18-18DEC18                 
   VIA BA  A     REQUIRED      A- FARES  BETWEEN LON-BOS       
                               13DEC18-18DEC18

(In fact, BA's change here is not advantageous as it disallows the use of D, E, L and Y classes would normally be allowed if the A bucket was full.)

So everyone except BA has their house in order.

Last edited by Calchas; Dec 16, 2018 at 3:26 am

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