Originally Posted by
canadiancow
International fares are not branded the same way. You generally just want to search by fare class, for MUHQV.
But it's exceptionally common for PY A fares to be cheaper than even the cheapest Flex, or at least within a small margin. So it's often better just booking A if you're looking for "upgradeable 100+% earning" fares.
My employer allows bookings in economy flex. I suppose if PY were cheaper I could maybe make the case, but then I’m opening a bit of a can of worms.
I tried to search by MUHQV and this works to a degree. But I wonder if it breaks down with multiple carriers? The flight booking I’m looking at is an outbound with 2 stops. AC metal TATL and then two TK flights. AC in V and TK both in W. Way home would be an LH and an AC both in V.
When I use powertools to go and book this on AC the outbound leg shows as Economy-Standard and the inbound shows as Economy-Flex.
Maybe I’m going a step too far from what this is designed to do… but what I would love is to be able to search out the options in ITA but limit them to what will always show Flex once I use powertools to get back to AC…