Academic, congrats on 2k! ^

When I saw that, my face lit up with a grin.

The Tango fare class competes 1:1 with any low cost airline. The Fare class matches both the price and benefits. Westjet charges $30 for flight changes and so does Tango. Westjet does not allow advanced seat selection. Tango will allow seat selection but at a premium. However if Westjet were to allow free advanced seat selection, the $15 Tango charge would be removed.

As to why Tango+ is the same price as Tango, there is not any major LCC presence on on the Transborder market. The only real competition is YYZ-Florida (but most of Westjet routes were not daily) and YYC-LAX.

Although I haven't been flying much lately 100% of it is transborder short hops so I have always purchased Fun/Tango +. Status miles and save a dollar for coffee. ^

I too noticed that domestic Tango fares are higher than Tango+ in some cases. This worked to YUL-YYZ outbound June 1 and inbound June 14 (both segments had this situation).

If my earlier thesis is true, this situation is because AC has 25 flights to Westjet's 4 and a non existent Canjet. On routes where AC and Westjet compete head on, the fare classes operate as normal.

About the transborder Tango fares being $1 more than Tango+ - I remember reading somewhere here earlier in the winter (YYZ do?) that AC was trying to eliminate the Tango fare option for USA but the software for the web site didn't allow it (or something like that) so the way they eliminate it is to make the Tango $1 more than Tango plus.
It also has something to do with the code sharing with United and their fare buckets and Status miles for pretty much all of the United flights IIRC.

Congrats also to Academic...

Yes, you do.

And gratz Academic.

They are not always more. It varies by route and how far in advance of the flight.

There are many fare classes in Tango. If the lowest elements of Tango are sold out the the higher elements are still available. There are many fare classes within Tango+ also. It just happens that the lowest + is lower than the highest pure Tango.

No no no no no everybody..

Tango+ is used to compete against transborder American carriers -- it has advanced seat assignment and 100% status miles (used to be 50% status miles) -- this is in line with American carriers. They couldn't use Tango because you get no status miles and no seat assignments, so this made sense to have Tango+ the cheaper (and competitive) option... this is the reason why Tango+ is cheaper than Tango.

This was stated by Empress a few times in past threads, as well as at the YVR DO.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showp...7&postcount=71 (for the newbies, Fun is the old name for Tango+)

But also, keep in mind what exAC said above... the cheapest Tango is still cheaper than the most expensive Tango+, but for the most part you will see the cheaper option in most cases as the fare classes tend to align themselves with others.

I booked some domestic flights, all in Tango+ for July. There was a $30 difference, but these flights will get me to Prestige status (yeah I know), so I just did it for the status miles. I know quite a few other students who do the same thing for the miles.

Westjet hasn't been cheaper than AC, in Tango or Tango+ recently for any of the dates or routes I've been checking out.

Thanks. And yyznomad, there are times I wish that I could get a life that allowed me the time to post a little more often here

Errr... you're welcome?

Nope you shouldn't get a life at all.