Originally Posted by
lucky9876coins
At this point it's all speculation from our end, since I have asked repeatedly but have not had anyone confirm/deny that they were on a discounted F ticket and had three stars because of it. My theory is that by "full fare" UA means paid as opposed to upgraded. I really think that a Z fare or discounted F, for example, would count as three stars, but I could be wrong. I wish someone that's not a 1K would fly a discounted F ticket and let us know!
Forgive me for adding to the speculation, but the reason I think it is *full fare* (stars for emphasis.....not coding! LOL!).........is for the fact that for so long people on high F,C,Y tickets were coming last, lumped in with all the others. F/A's voiced this to management (for years!) and I assumed they were finally listening. Im pretty sure that when I recently worked as purser I saw some without any designation (stars), thus implying that there would be a 5th tier....the 'no star' category......'SA' being the 6th tier.
When on international, I have during free moments shown fellow crewmembers the full 'by name-all pax' manifest....teaching them how to find the fare codes along with the names. YES....you heard it.
The full aircraft manifest on international does show fare designations (F,D,C,Q,Y,M etc....)