Originally Posted by
catocony
Concur or AMEX or other corporate travel tools generally don't let you select a particular fare bucket. They generally just show the cheapest available at the moment, though from my experience Basic Economy ones are excluded.
This is up to the company and how they configure Concur. Most corporates will configure it to ignore basic economy fares. In our case it will offer the cheapest (non-BE) and some higher fares based on flexibility, but will still apply policy on whether we can book the higher fares. eg, flying SFO-LAX last minute you can often get fully refundable for ~$20 more than cheapest, so it will show/allow both. Other routes the difference might be in the hundreds so it will show but not allow the higher fare.
Originally Posted by
StuckinITH
There is one scenario where that would not work without a caution: if the corporate agent purchases fully flexible Economy fares, I think that the upfare to First puts it in the non-flexible category. I guess the OP can decide if that is a risk that is acceptable.
And keep in mind that when you make such a change, even directly with the airline, the travel agency is notified. Whether or not they actually look at those notifications is likely a different story, but they can see the change, which means that so can your employer.