Why are economy fares (MEL-ICN) more expensive than business fares?
Jun 23, 2018, 7:31 am
#1
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Location: Australia
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Why are economy fares (MEL-ICN) more expensive than business fares?
Hi,
Trying to get some quotes for MEL-ICN-MEL (via HKG both ways) for April 2019 with around a week in Seoul and am getting silly prices from CX website, business around AUD 4100 with economy around AUD 9100.
Does anyone know why they have this type of pricing?
Cheers!
Trying to get some quotes for MEL-ICN-MEL (via HKG both ways) for April 2019 with around a week in Seoul and am getting silly prices from CX website, business around AUD 4100 with economy around AUD 9100.
Does anyone know why they have this type of pricing?
Cheers!
Jun 23, 2018, 8:30 am
#2
Join Date: May 2015
Location: WAS, SZX, HKG
Programs: AS MVP Gold 75K, CX Green
Posts: 735
Appears that the Economy fare is booking into a very high fare class thus it is very expensive, while there are still some cheap lower fare class available in Business (something like I, D). Happens all the time
Jun 24, 2018, 6:20 pm
#4
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Thank you.
I believe that's probably the case. Prices for departure in late March are much more reasonable. Maybe they haven't got round to putting up the specials yet.
Whilst there are certain features of the Y cabin which I find to be of a more premium quality than those which are normally found in the J cabin (don’t think it’s a good idea to go into depth discussing these features on a forum of this nature), I don’t think the delta is worth the extra 4k AUD.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Jun 25, 2018, 5:40 pm
#7
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That's what I thought too, will be checking regularly to see if they get updated when this current round of offers expires (which requires ticketing by 30/6/2018).