Originally Posted by
SpammersAreScum
By "neighbors" I meant the close-by island nations: Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu; I also had a round trip NAN-SUV within Fiji. I purchased "VALUE" fares on the FJ website up front, no "upfaring". I just went back to the AS website to check -- out of the 10 segments the breakdown was 3 L, 3 Y, 1 Q, 1 S, 1 V. I lost 1 because they failed to scan my BP due to a minor medical emergency leading to some chaos.
Since they were all short flights, I got 500 points plus status bonus for each one, so it's hard to determine %s.
. In terms of fares on short hop NAN-SUV route, there are only 3 fare classes available according to EF -- H, B, and Y. Y earns 100% miles flown, while H and B earn 75% (disregard this, was mistakenly looking at QR chart above instead of AS chart. Also, ITA Matrix shows there are also 'O', 'Q', 'S', 'V', and 'L' fares on this route which aren't showing up on EF for some reason).
Note that once again, "Light", "Value", "Comfort", and "Plus" fares still don't book into specific fare classes. You can identify them by the letters "LT", "VL", "CM", and "PL" in the second and third letters of the fare basis codes of the fare filings below from ExpertFlyer. It all comes down to fare class availability on flights, not whether you pick a "Light", "Value", "Comfort", or "Plus" fare. That actually has zero bearing on which fare class you book into on a flight.
I'll try highlighting them for you. Here are the "Light" fares, notice how they can book into H, B, and Y class.
Here are the "Value" fares. Notice how they can book into H, B, and Y class.
Here are the "Comfort" fares. Notice how they can book into H, B, and Y class.
Finally, here are the "Plus" fares which can also book into H, B, and Y class.
