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Can CX GCC do it? Not TAs only? I might have misspoken on Reddit if yes.

MH has the same practice and better still, don't even let you see the subclass until ticket is issued, so CX is not alone. Life wasn't supposed to be made easy when one flies peasant's class. So most of us just have to suck it up, exhale in despair and move on.

Their own status (Elite Points) earn table is fare code-agnostic https://enrich.malaysiaairlines.com/...ning_Table.pdf

obviously you get my point. I said that it’s not displayed upright. Hidden until at the end of checkout.

Not necessarily. I take "upright" to mean unethical.If that's the case, I politely disagree. What MH does above, is pushing that boundary (you don't find out until ticketed). CX shows it to you at the end. This is inconvenient but not awful, and it doesn't change the fact that if you really want to target a fareclass, you just call them or a travel agent and book that way.

Ironically I am also annoyed by it. And it's also true, the econ fares are clearly more complicated than J and F. But I don't think it's some unethical CX anti-consumer thing as you may be implying. It's my belief that those of us on FT are in the minority of bookers. Even my secretary whose job this technically is (in reality, I like booking a lot of my own tickets), she can't be bothered with sub fareclasses as I am out of sheer interest / hobby. She has better things to worry about. The majority of the traveling public I think are better served by the more simple names CX has in plain English, even though it's annoying for us.

It might just be a difference of opinion.

Honestly this is a policy and transparency issue. Life is certainly easier if you can afford to fly first class. But not the majority of travelers can. That’s why we have only a handful of first class seats on the plane. I guarantee you that the majority of travelers have never flown first or business class before. The responsibility and the “suck it up, move on with life” attitude shouldn’t be placed on the underprivileged travelers flying on the peasant class.

It’s honestly a simple fix with displaying the class code during flight selection. I don’t think that will cost millions of dollars in business revenue.

Obviously the business owner will do whatever that makes minimum business sense and easiest to implement for them
The same reason why they introduced more perks at the top. They are not after the vast majority which does not bring them the corresponding revenue

Your request has been logged in my my tech road map for airport tycoon 2044

AFAIK, CX website booking only displays the cheapest available class. I think it makes sense because if they display all the options of Discount Economy, Economy, Full Economy (three classes), and each class coming with three fare types (lite, essential, flex), there would be 9 combinations for costumers to choose. It will probably complicate things for 95% of the costumers IMO.

Maybe it’s my choice of words that is leading to our difference of opinion.

I meant upright as in “stands straight up”.
Outright is actually the term that is more suitable in this context.

I get your point.

It’s just annoying like you said to have to figure out all these fare subclasses. I am more tech savvy than my parents and so I can assist them now that we know how the system works.

But for the other travelers, especially the elderly and individuals that are not informed, it’s not as easy for them to navigate through the FF process.

Maybe it’s a good suggestion that I can provide to Cathay. List the sub fare class during flight selection. List the number of Asia Miles and status points that can be earned prior to checkout.
These are predetermined values and it shouldn’t cost millions of dollars in revenue to display online.

With advancements in technology, life should be made easier for all classes of travelers. I’ll have to call CS now to secure a certain fare class. Very tedious when you are booking multiple tickets at one time.

I can’t read some of your text. What’s with the font color change?
I had to copy and paste your text onto another place.

Based on your reply, if that’s the case, why do we have 9 different subfare classes in the first place? What’s the purpose for subdividing all the fare classes? Seems like it’s a type of confusopoly then if travelers are not informed.

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All that effort just to chase SL for what? Lounge access and a bowl of dandan noddles?
Over the increment of paying how much more for full-economy fares over the course of a yr?

Anyways, OP hope this chart clears it up for you as you mention you fly from JFK:

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...23c6ed33cd.jpg

It's how different price levels are filed in the GDS.

It may be possible to force the next highest fare class online by using another browser to make some dummy bookings that fill up the lower buckets