Originally Posted by
santhosh.kharvi
A new datapoint. After looking at my reservation, I see the booking class for this flight is U. Is there a translation somewhere for whether this books to SMART or BASIC?
Well...
Across Lufthansa group, all letter fare classes in economy come in all three flavors - Light, Classic and Flex. Eurowings calls Light Basic and Classic Smart.
Eurowings differs from rest of the Group in that it does its own ticketing outside of IATA etix space. If you buy a ticket on Eurowings web, it's not a proper ticket as such. ("Ticketless" channel in EW-speak)
They do
also sell proper tickets through GDSs as well.
Now here comes the unusual part.
Eurowings does not sell Basic through GDS.
All fare codes except I and J are non-flex. I and J are Smart Flex and Biz Flex respectively.
And here comes the weird for you part: EW does not do U fare.
Your U fare is United U, not EW U. I have no idea what UA U maps to in EW.
One way or another... it's not Basic. Basic only exists in Ticketless.