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Jan 13, 2005 | 1:17 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goingforgold

I was perusing the FC seat maps as part of my routine in sizing up my chances for upgrade when I noticed that the fare class listed for purchase was "R2PBF". It was my impression that R was purely an upgrade bucket.

When I did this for previous trips, and even the same flights 2 days ago, the fares were in "P". The fare has dropped from approx $2500 to approx $1300 for a first class fare.

My theory is NW responded to Delta's SimpliFares by using the R to be a "deep discount" FC fare bucket.

Any thoughts?

Notice the 2 in the fare code. It actually books into P. R to P. Get it? It's just like some business fares that you can pull up. They start out B2CMA or something like it.