How do I price return flights with different classes of travel?
Dec 7, 2018, 1:10 pm
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How do I price return flights with different classes of travel?
Am I missing something obvious? I often need/want to price trips involving (typically) F in one direction and J in another. I cannot see a way to do this either on ba.com or using Matrix, let alone Google. Do I have to get a TA involved or call BA to do this? Or is there something (probably very obvious) I'm missing?
Dec 7, 2018, 1:19 pm
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Do you want to select travel classes or specific booking classes on each sector?
If travel classes, select business on ba.com and you should be able to choose business or First as you go through the booking process.
If travel classes, select business on ba.com and you should be able to choose business or First as you go through the booking process.
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Dec 7, 2018, 1:30 pm
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Travel classes. But I don't remotely see the functionality on ba.com of which you speak, Richard. How would I get one segment in business and another in First?
Dec 7, 2018, 1:33 pm
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On ba.com: If I select business for the flights as travel class, on the next screen I get prices for business and first, which gives the option to select different segments.
Dec 7, 2018, 1:36 pm
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Whereas if you select First to begin with, then Club World won't then show up unless there is no First on the sector concerned. So select your lowest cabin first, or even WTP and work upwards. Won't work in Multi City however, that's one class throughout unless there isn't a cabin available.
If you are still struggling by all means be specific or add screenshots.
If you are still struggling by all means be specific or add screenshots.
Dec 7, 2018, 2:23 pm
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Life's too short at that point, arguably it is too short whenever you are clicking Multi City. Use ITA Matrix to work out the approximate fare and then call up to book it.
Dec 7, 2018, 3:10 pm
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LHR
BA
F BC=F|BC=A
JFK
ORD
BA
F BC=J|BC=C|BC=D|BC=R|BC=I
LHR
And put in some dates.
You'll need to activate the advanced controls, and I think it will be fairly obvious where to put the bits in. There is a shortcut for the first cabin and the business cabin, to avoid putting in all of the booking classes; but I'm sorry I can never remember that off the top of my head.
Dec 7, 2018, 4:16 pm
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Dec 7, 2018, 4:41 pm
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I'll cut and paste my post from last week's thread on this...
You are certainly not the first person to make this point! 
Here's just a wee selection...
Getting Quotes for Multi City + Multi Class bookings
Mix Class Of Travel On Multi City Booking
Mixed class in multicity?
Questions about multi city multi class booking
Booking Multi City in different Classes
Multi City Multi Cabin Booking?
Best way to price-up mixed cabin multi-city?
Come on BA!
Here's just a wee selection...
Getting Quotes for Multi City + Multi Class bookings
Mix Class Of Travel On Multi City Booking
Mixed class in multicity?
Questions about multi city multi class booking
Booking Multi City in different Classes
Multi City Multi Cabin Booking?
Best way to price-up mixed cabin multi-city?
Come on BA!
Dec 7, 2018, 7:20 pm
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Dec 8, 2018, 12:44 am
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+cabin 1 will give you First, 2 for business. Not sure if 3 maps to PE as I think this might be an old option.
Dec 8, 2018, 7:52 am
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Thanks - this is the bit I can never remember.
Dec 8, 2018, 11:45 am
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Dec 8, 2018, 12:16 pm
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For simple returns, usually BA.com will offer an up-sell for either direction individually, I think. So as noted above you would certainly start by requesting CW, and then after selecting flights and fares, see what the up-sell for the desired segment in First is.
But if you have a good travel agent in your repertoire, this is the kind of thing that, after I've done some research on prices of each leg in club or first on a roundtrip basis, I'd send it onto them and happily pay their booking fee. And every so often, when I do send it that way, the price they come back with is slightly better anyway, but that's usually intricacies of local taxes, etc.
But if you have a good travel agent in your repertoire, this is the kind of thing that, after I've done some research on prices of each leg in club or first on a roundtrip basis, I'd send it onto them and happily pay their booking fee. And every so often, when I do send it that way, the price they come back with is slightly better anyway, but that's usually intricacies of local taxes, etc.