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Old Mar 17, 2025 | 7:17 am
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signalpirate
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Originally Posted by xliioper
How are you searching on ITA Matrix? By default, ITA Matrix will show you pricing for "Light" fares, not "Standard" fares if that is cheapest coach option bookable. You can't really filter out the "Light" fares in KL/AF searches on ITA cheapest available searches unless you know the exact fare basis codes you want to book. Light fares will always have a 'B' in second to last character of fare basis codes. Both Light and Standard fares will simply show as "Economy" class in the ITA itinerary listings. If you are thinking "Economy" is the same as "Standard", it's not.


ExpertFlyer is pretty useless here as they have point-of-sale inventory issues with roundtrip searches. They always use EU point-of-sale for return flights even when trip origin is US/Canada and they should be using US/Canada point-of-sale inventory. Expertflyer is showing no T inventory on return flights even though there clearly is availability on them from US/Canada point-of-sale perspective. ExpertFlyer is only showing H class inventory availability on flights. I've sent a bug report to ExpertFlyer, but they never responded.











you screenshot for $9000.. can you tell me how you got that? i'm doing 2 adults and 3 kids 2-11.. for those exact flights and dates.. and i get $9400 on a standard fare. i dont think your screenshot is "light fare" as i end up with $8700. and yes we're talking CAD here.
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