Originally Posted by DasKitty
I don't fly to asia much, so I can't speak to whether UA ever publishes a Z fare to SYD....I would think they would during very limited windows - say, to match a sale from Quantas or whomever.
Qantas (note the lack of
u) has never discounted that market in recent years in the premium cabins. Even when UA brought out the Z fare I mentioned in my OP, QF ignored it.
The Australia-USA flights are among the most profitable for QF in their whole system and it is not uncommon to see them zero out all business class buckets excepting J (the full fare bucket, equivalent to C on UA) months before the flight takes off as they can fill the whole cabin on full fare business tickets.