[sigh!] the point that I, and others, are trying get across is that the checking is a tedious, multi-stage process - and one quite outside the suite of techniques most punters use when booking tickets. The airline is employing a shallow marketing mechanism to dupe passengers less wary than you or I into buying tickets at the regular fare, in the belief that the code they apply is generating a discount. In fact only a very small number of routes, booked within a defined date range and in specific booking classes have any chance of receiving any discount at all.

The crafty twist is that unless the purchaser conducts a parallel dummy booking without the code, he will have no idea if a discount has been generated. QR doesn't display any discount achieved, doesn't advise you if the the code has not generated a discount, and doesn't warn you if the code has made the fare more expensive.


It doesn't need to be like this. There are many examples of airlines promoting sales in far less opaque ways. Given we are talking QR, maybe the marketing team is simply inept; but it's not unreasonable to reach the conclusion that the airline is happy to con punters into buying tickets in the belief that they are getting a discount.