Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
However, federal employees are normally expected/required to book government fares and these aren't basic economy.
If a private employer uses Concur, it might to might not show basic economy fares, depending on how the employer wanted Concur to be set up for their employees.
The times that I have booked GSA fares, they have been issued as Y tickets, even last year when I had to go up to Livermore, the fare was a YCA, which is defined as "Unrestricted Coach Fare." There are Capacity Controlled Y fares in the system, but, in the case of ONT-SJC, only the unrestricted fare exists.
But, when I've been using the DTS, BE is never shown, and is always Y fares. For example, I had to travel to SAV and then CHS last year as well and the DTS was kicking out completely different fares than what the GSA was showing.