AC Promo Code When Forcing Routing Through Google Flights?
Oct 28, 2022, 6:21 pm
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AC Promo Code When Forcing Routing Through Google Flights?
I'm using Google Flights to force a multi-stop routing on an otherwise straightforward roundtrip, in order to undertake a mini-segment run. Today's Halloween sale provides a lovely 20% I could take off that trip, but booking directly through the AC website doesn't give me the stops/routing I want. Apologies if this is a daft question...but is there anything I'm missing? Is there a way to use the AC promo code via Google flights? With thanks in advance!
Oct 28, 2022, 6:45 pm
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Google flights will send you to another site to complete the booking. If it's sending you to AC then you should be able to enter it there at checkout but if it's coming up through a third party site then you'll be out of luck.
Have you tried booking it up as a multi-city trip directly on AC?
Have you tried booking it up as a multi-city trip directly on AC?
Oct 28, 2022, 6:52 pm
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Oct 28, 2022, 7:01 pm
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This was unfortunately my reason for posting...my understanding (though I stood to be corrected!) was that they had to be entered with your origin/destination/dates, rather than at checkout.
Have you tried booking it up as a multi-city trip directly on AC?
I have indeed, and AC is not allowing it.
Have you tried booking it up as a multi-city trip directly on AC?
I have indeed, and AC is not allowing it.
Last edited by Adam Smith; Oct 28, 2022 at 7:05 pm Reason: Merge consecutive posts by same user
Oct 28, 2022, 7:35 pm
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This was unfortunately my reason for posting...my understanding (though I stood to be corrected!) was that they had to be entered with your origin/destination/dates, rather than at checkout.
Have you tried booking it up as a multi-city trip directly on AC?
I have indeed, and AC is not allowing it.
Have you tried booking it up as a multi-city trip directly on AC?
I have indeed, and AC is not allowing it.
Nov 1, 2022, 8:05 pm
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OK this looks new and interesting, so AC is likely working with Google to sync pricing and match the restriction on AC's promo codes in some markets/directions.
It's set up as some exclusive commercial fare so it doesn't show up in Google or AC's site upon fare review as a promotion being applied, but basically it's still a promo code which shows up in AC email after ticketing
This week's public Halloween code is M984UAP1, whereas the Google flight commercial code is N68XA4B1 after looking at the deeplink and upon ticketing
Using AC.com and/or matrix with &AUTHORIZATION_ID=, both yield the same exact price for a simple one way fare as well as black out days for my sample one way fare.
Can't say if this is good or bad, I suppose it's good for visiblity that one just need to search on Google and see all fares consistently without having to look for a code, but when it comes to changes (AC's promo code rule applies when making changes) I'm not sure how that would work since the commercial code rule is not displayed until after ticketing
Basically to answer the question, since AC system only allows one promo code and Google flight already has it set up, you can't apply another discount from Google flight even though it looks like there's no promo applied.
It's set up as some exclusive commercial fare so it doesn't show up in Google or AC's site upon fare review as a promotion being applied, but basically it's still a promo code which shows up in AC email after ticketing
This week's public Halloween code is M984UAP1, whereas the Google flight commercial code is N68XA4B1 after looking at the deeplink and upon ticketing
Using AC.com and/or matrix with &AUTHORIZATION_ID=, both yield the same exact price for a simple one way fare as well as black out days for my sample one way fare.
Can't say if this is good or bad, I suppose it's good for visiblity that one just need to search on Google and see all fares consistently without having to look for a code, but when it comes to changes (AC's promo code rule applies when making changes) I'm not sure how that would work since the commercial code rule is not displayed until after ticketing
Basically to answer the question, since AC system only allows one promo code and Google flight already has it set up, you can't apply another discount from Google flight even though it looks like there's no promo applied.
Last edited by jix; Nov 1, 2022 at 8:46 pm