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Jan 11, 2023 | 2:30 pm

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Originally Posted by anabolism

You're right. I thought I'd seen them in my BA fare, but I must have been looking at an AA fare. So from where does auto-price get it?

BA surcharges are usually set by country of origin and then route/cabin. I saw the Excel spreadsheet version of the breakdown back when I worked there; this is probably loaded into ATPCO or the GDSs in a table that pricing systems can query, but not in a way that we can ask a GDS or EF to 'show me the BA YQ table' - I haven't found it yet anyway…

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Originally Posted by anabolism

…for RTW fares, I don't know how they are determined…

BA used to do a fare quote for the whole itin, at the best published fare level, then use that quote to build the price for the RTW; remove the quoted fare, replace with the xONEx fare, keep the TFCs that quoted (removing or adjusting any that we knew needed it.) The YQ/YR would be whatever quoted for the underlying route/cabin for the point of sale.

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