Originally Posted by
FlyeBye
They are preparing for this already. Got this in an e-mail from Finnair.
"Finnair is preparing to launch a new travel class, Premium Economy to our offering in 2021 and to ensure that we are able to start selling this new travel class, we need to make technical changes to our booking class structure.
Therefore, four booking classes, P, T, W and R, will be taken out of our inventory to make room for the upcoming Premium Economy bookings.
(...) We hereby inform you that as of 1st of April 2019, any of the applicable of the four booking classes (P, T, W and R) will no longer be available."
Seems like they are running out of letters indeed...
Very interesting communications! Any idea why you've got this? Do you have such tickets in the far future? Or are you an agent?
Not quite sure what to make of this.
It looks like they remove the two lowest fares plus the two lowest value-only fares. If the structure is kept there of course will be re-positioning of the remaining buckets, but it could mean that LI will be available even at high loads. (today, LI exists in 8 of 12 buckets, after change if no alterations it will be in 6 of 8 buckets - not counting the PR only buckets)
I wonder if LI/BA/VA/PR is going to survive. It seems this is a time to remove the types altogether, since they cannot use them on a large number of destinations anyway.
Also interesting if they are reserving 4 buckets for such a small part of the cabin.