Originally Posted by
qwicker
I am looking to purchase a round trip business fare from EWR to CDG departing 5/26 and returning 5/30. The system is only letting me purchase really expensive D fares ($10k and change) and I can't figure out why. On both flights, lower fare buckets are available and the outbound even has PN3 (UA54). Can anyone help me understand why I'm only being shown a D fare? I've purchased this route many times and I've never paid more than $8k. It's boggling my mind and assume someone smart here can explain
One of the experts can probably give more context or pull the fare rules, but highly likely that the discount business buckets (especially intl) have some sort of advance purchase requirement. So even though you "see" availability down to PN, the Z and P fares likely have 14,21,30+ day purchase requirements, or minimum stay that you are not meeting with your quote for a ticket ~10 days out.