Originally Posted by aaupgrade
YUP refers to the fare class designator that appears in fare codes liek YUPPMZ. It books into the A booking class, which currently is used for discounted first class (YUP fares), mileage and eVIP upgrades, and oneworld Explorer around the world fares booked into the AONEx where "x" is the number of countries. The underlying fare code is changing at the end of September to A and P. But despite those changes, YUP fares are going nowhere, only the underlying fare structure is changing. I am not going to go into that - feel free to search for it if you like.
aaupgrade I was looking exactly for information on this today! A little OT but I am very confused by this A to P change (along with a good number of AA agents). I just called to make my usual RT of BOS - ELP (via ORD or DFW) and the 3 agents I spoke to say that they can't book me into a YUP fare after 9/28!
I explained to them that it is coming out of P class now and they said they can't even see it yet. I even gave them the exact fare code
YUPPMZ which was coming up on AA.com but they still couldn't see it. Does this mean that they really
aren't going to be the exact same or have their computers not caught up yet?
TO THE OP: the YUPs, in their current state, have been covered quite well here already. I will say that of my last 26 segments ALL of them have been on YUP fares! ^ My RT for my aforementioned BOS - ELP fully refundable K class normally is 717.07, A class (YUP) is 1093.16 and full Y is 1410 with F being 1600 or so. I usually pick up the YUP as it's a great deal for me and could be for you too.