Help booking ITA Matrix fare DL+KL
Mar 10, 2016, 12:16 am
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Help booking ITA Matrix fare DL+KL
Can't figure out how to book this seemingly simple fare from SEA-ARN round trip. I've tried Kayak, Google Flights, Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, Hipmunk as well as Delta and KLM's own sites. Can anyone help?
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Delta 144 Dep: 6:10PM Arr: 1:00PM 9h 50m Airbus A330 Coach (X) Layover in AMS Fri, Jun 17 1h 45m KLM 1115 Dep: 2:45PM Arr: 4:45PM 2h Boeing 737 Coach (R) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stockholm (ARN) to Seattle (SEA) - Sun, Jun 26 Delta 9277 Dep: 9:35AM Arr: 11:35AM 2h Boeing 737 Coach (X) OPERATED BY KLM Layover in AMS 1h 15m Delta 145 Dep: 12:50PM Arr: 2:00PM 10h 10m Airbus A330 Coach (X) FARE AND BOOKING DETAILS Provide this information to a travel agent to help them match the fares found. Make sure to provide the exact booking and fare codes shown. Fare 1: Carrier DL XHWP69US SEA to STO $177.50 Passenger type ADT, round trip fare, booking code X, R Covers SEA-AMS (Economy), AMS-ARN (Economy) Fare 2: Carrier DL XHWP69US STO to SEA $177.50 Passenger type ADT, round trip fare, booking code X Covers ARN-AMS (Economy), AMS-SEA (Economy) Netherlands Passenger Service Charge (RN) $12.60 Netherlands Noise Surcharge (VV) $1.00 Netherlands Security Service Charge (CJ) $13.00 DL YR surcharge (YR) $496.00 US International Departure Tax (US) $17.80 US September 11th Security Fee (AY) $5.60 US Passenger Facility Charge (XF) $4.50 USDA APHIS Fee (XA) $3.96 US Immigration Fee (XY) $7.00 US Customs Fee (YC) $5.50 US International Arrival Tax (US) $17.80 Sweden Passenger Charge (YA) $18.40 Subtotal per passenger $958.16 Number of passengers x1 Total airfare & taxes $958.16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fare construction (can be useful to travel agents) SEA DL X/E/AMS Q19.00 KL STO M 158.50XHWP69US DL X/E/AMS Q19.00 DL SEA M 158.50XHWP69US NUC 355.00 END ROE 1.00 XT 5.50YC 7.00XY 3.96XA 35.60US 5.60AY 13.00CJ 12.60RN 1.00VV 18.40YA 496.00YR 4.50XF SEA4.50
Mar 10, 2016, 4:27 am
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Getting this price requires splitting flight codings which many sites won't do. Booking as all DL/KL-coded flights bumps the outbound combo into a higher fare class (married segment logic at work). So it's not quite that simple. I was able to get this to price on skyscanner.com which takes you to faredepot.com for booking. Currently prices out at $950.40 (they list a $10 discount, not sure what that is about). Orbitz used to be fairly good at booking these split codings, but I think Expedia may have changed the back-end engine with the acquisition.
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Mar 10, 2016, 5:57 am
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Note that OP is actually departing on the 16th (the layover at AMS is on the 17th). This caught me at first as well. If you use the 16th for the departure, DL is only offering T buckets on the outbound flight combo above. You can get X fares by taking the earlier SEA-AMS flight, but that requires a longer layover at AMS (which OP apparently wants to avoid).
Mar 10, 2016, 6:14 am
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Note that OP is actually departing on the 16th (the layover at AMS is on the 17th). This caught me at first as well. If you use the 16th for the departure, DL is only offering T buckets on the outbound flight combo above. You can get X fares by taking the earlier SEA-AMS flight, but that requires a longer layover at AMS (which OP apparently wants to avoid).
Mar 10, 2016, 9:30 am
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Getting this price requires splitting flight codings which many sites won't do. Booking as all DL/KL-coded flights bumps the outbound combo into a higher fare class (married segment logic at work). So it's not quite that simple. I was able to get this to price on skyscanner.com which takes you to faredepot.com for booking. Currently prices out at $950.40 (they list a $10 discount, not sure what that is about).
I was actually able to price this out using Orbitz with this (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...serscript.html) Greasemonkey script -- how did I not know about this script before?!?! It even failed to get Delta to price out the flight (Delta pulled up the flight segments in business class only), but I kept clicking all of the script-generated options until one (Orbitz) worked.
Interestingly enough, Orbitz booking generated using script linked to above actually saved me $25. Final booking total was $925.55
Mar 10, 2016, 1:47 pm
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Glad it worked out.
I've also been able to have DL phone agents ticket things like this for me.
Just explain that you want that leg with the KL code and they can hand pick.
I've put together some impressively complicated itin's that way.
I've also been able to have DL phone agents ticket things like this for me.
Just explain that you want that leg with the KL code and they can hand pick.
I've put together some impressively complicated itin's that way.
