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Old Oct 17, 2025 | 2:47 am
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Originally Posted by QRC3288
The majority of the traveling public I think are better served by the more simple names CX has in plain English, even though it's annoying for us.
(Edited 5pm) Not particularly customer friendly.
In fact, I will analogise it to QR/AY unbundling lounge from Business.

AY/QR Business Lite
Previous practice: Business means lounge
New Enhanced (Elevated) practice: Business means seat only - buy lounge separately (and in outports, not particularly easy to add on)

CX Light/Essential/Flex
Previous practice: fare buckets reflect demand, but higher fare buckets get better status earn and booking benefits e.g. free cancel
New Enhanced (Elevated) practice: fare buckets reflect demand, but booking benefits are unbundled. Also if you care about status earn, you're going to put in more work/$$$ to ensure you end up in the correct fare code (with the additional fare not necessarily yielding booking benefits)
Last edited by percysmith; Oct 17, 2025 at 3:09 am
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