Originally Posted by
nolens volans
Browsing through AC.com I have found for a number of dates in the next month a semi-decent NYC-LHR C fare (or at least semi-decent before you add on the 400$ or so in fuel robbery and UK government puritanism) of 2483$+. Thought this might in itself be worthy of comment, since while everybody knows about the ex-US cheapo fares, I've never noticed before that AC had much in the way of good US-LHR fares in J class (usually if you try to price such itineraries they come out as astronomical full J).
The odd part is that when you scroll through the flight options (via YUL or YYZ), there is almost always at least one segment in Y. Sometimes it's one of the transatlantic segments, sometimes it's one of the transborder segments, sometimes it's both transatlantic segments, and sometimes it's everything but one of transatlantic segments, and there are a
few instances of all 4 segments in J - but the fare is always the same.
What's going on ? Is this fare (booking code next to flight says C, but the fare basis appears to be something like Z7OW) some sort of discounted part-J part-Y grab bag ? Is this the purpose of the mysterious new Z class ?
There seems to be a big US - International sale through AC, trying to get US traffic to fly with them.
Aside from that though, have you checked the aircraft on the transborder flights? I know at least some of EWR - YYZ, EWR - YUL and LGA - YUL flights are CRJ's, which don't have J seats. Why they would sell the fare if its not available on the trans-atlantic segment is beyond me.