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Old Jul 4, 2022, 4:49 pm
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Originally Posted by adventures_await
I am planning a vacation to France next spring. When I compare the same United flights on the United app with the Lufthansa and Expedia apps the Business class fares are $ 400+ more on the United app. Any idea why?
Thanks
There could be a number of reason for this

LH and UA have legal joint venture which allows them to unify fares
For each LH/UA TATL flight, inventory is allocated to native flight inventory (flight number code by the operator and codeshare flight numbers coder by the other airline)
Then inventory id split into P, Z, D, C and J -- each progressively more expensive.
As inventory is sold out in each inventory class under native or codeshare inventory prices will effectively increase

WHat you will find is the flights you are comparing are in different inventory class of different flight numbers.

So at times the codeshare (LH or Expedia) of the same flight can be more or less expense then the native flight number (UA, in this case)

This can go either way and as demand switches to the lower fare -- that fare class will sell out or the higher fare will open new lower cost inventory -- but this does not happen instantaneously but eventually will

Just another example of the weird airfare pricing mechanics

One thing (if prices are nearly equal) it is better to purchase for the flight operate, especially given the high probability of changes in the next 9 months. And presently the change policies on UA ticket is much friendlier than LH. And Expedia is very difficult to work with on changes.

Originally Posted by DELee
UA wants more of your money. Period.
Yes but that is not the reason for this

Last edited by WineCountryUA; Jul 4, 2022 at 4:54 pm Reason: Expedia
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