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Fare feels too good to be true? Don't call the airline!!!!!!
Double check that the fare is actually in Business or First as some online search engines or OTA's confuse booking classes on some airlines.
Post as many details as possible about the First / Business fare, including fare class, fare basis, one-way / roundtrip, sales channel, sample dates & total price, including taxes.
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The deeply discounted international fares discussed here are almost always specific to a certain country of origin, so don't ask if it works in reverse (e.g. a SFO-LHR-SFO fare usually won't work LHR-SFO-LHR). Domestic fares more commonly work in reverse.
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Jan 31, 2013, 7:35 pm

#286

cardesigner2000

Join Date: Jun 2005

Location: GOT, LAX, CDG, NRT, ICN

Programs: M&M, FB, DL, BA, UA...

Posts: 790

LH/LX/OS C fare sale 899/1,499/1,599 EUR from Feb 7

Found on http://travel-dealz.de/blog/2013/01/......-lufthansa/
probably departing Germany, but maybe other EU countries.

899 Euro: Tel Aviv
1.499 Euro: Boston, Detroit, New York City, Washington, Atlanta, Philadelphia
1.599 Euro: Chicago, Dallas, Montreal, Peking, Bangkok, Singapur, Johannesburg
1.899 Euro: Las Vegas, Seattle, Bogota, Caracas

Quick translation:

Book between February 7 and 10th of March for departures between 10th of March and 30th of September. A lot of availability form 1 of July until 31 of August.

Screenshot on blog shows booking class P, but not a bad deal for vacation travel where long haul Y fares are often over 1,000 Euro anyway

Jan 31, 2013, 8:12 pm

#287

mtensioners

Join Date: Apr 2010

Location: YYZ

Posts: 1,225

Quote:

Originally Posted by hirohito888

Could be possible, sounds like a question for the AC forum. From Air Canada, they say:

http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/fl...7-300erxm.html

These are the same crappy plane AC uses for winter runs to HNL and they are called the 4 amigos, very very very old J seats, domestic layout and absolute minimal recline. Never pay for this seat for any long distance travel unless it is all daytime or you will regret it.
I did many YVR HNLs on these planes and paid for J due to lack of choice.

Feb 1, 2013, 3:35 am

#288

Keter

Join Date: Aug 2007

Location: AMS

Programs: KL PFL; BA Gold; A3 Silver; EY Silver; SU Silver

Posts: 2,488

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keter

*A US to Moscow fares have just bee pulled out of the shelf, one day earlier as the sales was supposed to end on 01FEB, maybe because competitors did not match, or because the fares were not properly coded

Added. In fact these have been replaced by the new ones, but ticketing is from tomorrow and till the end of tomorrow only.

Unfortunately the 'replacement' was not finalised (or never happened and I had a glitch on my screen). I also noticed first class A fares of LH have been adjusted. I only saw MOW, BCN and LON participating in that unannounced sale, maybe there were more cities available.

Feb 1, 2013, 5:26 am

#289

GLAinYYZ

Join Date: May 2005

Posts: 166

This route will have the standard executive first suites this summer,

Feb 1, 2013, 6:25 am

#290

MegatopLover

Join Date: Dec 2004

Location: ATL

Programs: DL SkyMiles PM/2MM, AA Plat, IC Diam. Amb., Peninsula regular, amanjunkie

Posts: 5,848

Quote:

Originally Posted by cardesigner2000

Anyone seeing matching in the other directions, such as US to Europe?

Feb 1, 2013, 7:42 am

#291

Buzzman

Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: SNA and XRY

Programs: UA PP, 2 MM; IC;

Posts: 1,043

Quote:

Originally Posted by gary_nj

This may have just been pulled... I was looking at ExpertFlyer and the fare seems to have just disappeared.

Not to MAD... this morning on .bomb LAX-MAD in P available at $1,606.20 ai lots of routings, including LAX-SFO-FRA-MAD, and through IAD, ORD & JFK outbound... Sample dates 4/10 return 4/25

Feb 1, 2013, 7:51 am

#292

why fly

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Join Date: Nov 2002

Location: Toronto YYZ UA-1K 1MM,QFgold

Programs: Royal Ambassador/ SPG Platinum 75/Marriott gold

Posts: 14,283

Quote:

Originally Posted by flugvergnugen

Not 100% sure, but heads-up that the a/c AC uses on this route may NOT have their standard C.
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Air..._767-300ER.php

also dont book any Air Canada discount tickets lots of them will not earn miles.BCN is a crap plane for business class and AC will be converting more planes to crap business class. the seats are just poor domestic business class equipped planes.

Feb 1, 2013, 9:56 am

#293

Keter

Join Date: Aug 2007

Location: AMS

Programs: KL PFL; BA Gold; A3 Silver; EY Silver; SU Silver

Posts: 2,488

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buzzman

Not to MAD... this morning on .bomb LAX-MAD in P available at $1,606.20 ai lots of routings, including LAX-SFO-FRA-MAD, and through IAD, ORD & JFK outbound... Sample dates 4/10 return 4/25

All gone, 4 hours after Moscow. Likely it was unticketable at the time you saw it already. Funny sale, never seen the sale was withdrawn before the scheduled time

Quote:

V FARE BASIS BK FARE TRAVEL-TICKET AP MINMAX RTG
1X PHXNC62S P‡R 777.00 E30JA T31JA 60/3 10/12M AT01
PASSENGER TYPE-ADT AUTO PRICE-YES
FROM-NYC TO-MAD CXR-LH TVL-05JUN13 RULE-E390 IPRA/1
FARE BASIS-PHXNC62S SPECIAL FARE DIS-E VENDOR-ATP
FARE TYPE-BAP RT-BUSINESS CLASS ADVANCE PURCHASE
USD 777.00 0403 E30JAN13 D-INFINITY FC-PHXNC62S FN-2H
SYSTEM DATES - CREATED 29JAN13/1726 EXPIRES 31JAN13/1630

Feb 1, 2013, 10:12 am

#294

Buzzman

Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: SNA and XRY

Programs: UA PP, 2 MM; IC;

Posts: 1,043

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keter

All gone, 4 hours after Moscow. Likely it was unticketable at the time you saw it already. Funny sale, never seen the sale was withdrawn before the scheduled time

I don't know.. just went in there and went as far as entering my CC No. and came up with a $1607 ai... LAX-MAD.... Out 4/11 return 4/25.. maybe it's where you are searching from... i dunno..