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Sep 3, 2025 | 2:20 pm

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Originally Posted by nygiants242

Thanks for your response. I apparently need to find G fare class availability. Is that only saver award ticket availability? Or which is it? Thank you if you have any guidance on deciphering what that might mean.

G is the VS fare bucket that Upper Class Award/Points tickets book into (P is the corresponding bucket for Premium Award bookings).

So basically there needs to be points availability in Upper Class in order to use your 'compensation' voucher, should you elect to take that instead of UK261 compo.

If I understand the previous poster correctly, although there has to be Points availability in Upper Class in order to use the voucher, it is treated like a cash ticket insofar as you're not then asked to pay additional YQ and tax charges like you would on a regular Points booking.

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