My sister-in-law is still planning to go to DEL from YOW in March, and come back a few weeks later. Her dates are flexible. She wants to book the cheapest fare ticket.
It seems that Continental may offer the cheapest fare (subject to availability), taking account taxes and fees, and taking account that one does not need to change airlines. The only disadvantage is that one has to transit via USA (in both directions).
It seems from sabre/ZUJ (see below) that TLON5CE is it the cheapest fare. The question is how to find the dates with the availability with this cheapest fare.
One can try to go to one of the 4 availability methods, and find the T booking code. However, there are 2 problems with that - one has to manually enter every date in a row, and the T booking code does not take account that there are 2 fare bases for that booking code. Is there any simple way to get booking code availability over several dates, all at once? Is there any way to get the availibility of the right fare basis, and again for several dates at one time (and if not, at least one date at one time)?
Then I try sabre dot/res - the cheapest fare I can find is TJON5CE - and its fare is quoted as CAN$1338, The cheaper T fare is not quoted, and this T fare shows a higher fare quote than that on Sabre/ZUJ - does the ZUJ method quote base fares, and the DOTRES method quote total fare, including taxes and fees? Again, this method does not tell me how to find the fare, directly, over a large number of dates, all at once?
To put my question all in one sentence, I am trying to figure out how to most efficiently, find the cheapest fares on this (or any other airline) from A to B (return), over a wide range of dates? It would be nice if this can be done in a one step process (for all dates viewed, all at once), for each of the methods one uses - realizing that I may have to use several methods in sequence (as you indicated in the FAQs at the beginning of this thread)?
[KVS Availability Tool 3.0.2/Platinum - Sabre: Fares/ZUJ/SG/CAD]
Code:
YOW Ottawa Metro / Ottawa Int'l ON CA = YOW [CYOW]
DEL Delhi Indira Gandhi Int'l IN [VIDP]
RT Jan-Dec
Carrier From To Fare Cur Expiry Min Max Fare Basis
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CO YOW DEL 894 CAD 12M TL0N5CE
CO YOW DEL 1045 CAD 12M TJ0N5CE
CO YOW DEL 1106 CAD 12M SL0N4CE
CO YOW DEL 1153 CAD 12M SK0N5CE
CO YOW DEL 1256 CAD 12M SJ0N4CE
CO YOW DEL 1317 CAD 12M SL0N3CE
CO YOW DEL 1343 CAD 12M SH0N2CE
CO YOW DEL 1364 CAD 12M QK0N4CE
CO YOW DEL 1468 CAD 12M QJ0N3CE
CO YOW DEL 1529 CAD 12M QL0N2CE
CO YOW DEL 1554 CAD 12M QH0N1CE
CO YOW DEL 1575 CAD 12M QK0N3CE
CO YOW DEL 1680 CAD 12M VJ0N2CE
CO YOW DEL 1726 CAD 12M VQ0N5CE
CO YOW DEL 1767 CAD 12M VH0N5CE
CO YOW DEL 1787 CAD 12M VK0N2CE
CO YOW DEL 1938 CAD 12M BQ0N4CE
CO YOW DEL 1952 CAD 12M BL0N1CE
CO YOW DEL 1978 CAD 12M BH0N3CE
CO YOW DEL 2103 CAD 12M BJ0N1CE
CO YOW DEL 2149 CAD 12M BQ0N3CE
CO YOW DEL 2210 CAD 12M BK0N1CE
CO YOW DEL 2301 CAD 12M MLO0NCE
CO YOW DEL 2360 CAD 12M MQ0N2CE
CO YOW DEL 2400 CAD 12M MH0N4CE
CO YOW DEL 2525 CAD 12M MJO0NCE
CO YOW DEL 2654 CAD 12M MKO0NCE
CO YOW DEL 2784 CAD HQ0N1CE
CO YOW DEL 2868 CAD HHO0NCE
CO YOW DEL 2890 CAD Sun 1M RR30APE
CO YOW DEL 3256 CAD HQO0NCE
CO YOW DEL 3599 CAD Sun 6M RLX7P18