N fares on UA are gone 2 min after the booking
Mar 14, 2013, 9:54 pm
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N fares on UA are gone 2 min after the booking
Yesterday I booked AUS-IAH-SEA-SFO-BOS-IAH-SEA-DEN-AUS MR at a decent 3.39 cpm, all N fares. After the initial booking was ticketed, I wanted to spend more time and perhaps optimize the routing and cpm only to find that all N fares were gone and replace with more pricy Gs.
The fact that N fares may be gone quickly is not puzzling to me. The puzzling part is that I was booking for Feb 2014.
Does UA has very limited, ie 1-2, N fares available that far in advance or what? Any ideas?
Fly safe!
The fact that N fares may be gone quickly is not puzzling to me. The puzzling part is that I was booking for Feb 2014.
Does UA has very limited, ie 1-2, N fares available that far in advance or what? Any ideas?
Fly safe!
Mar 16, 2013, 11:54 pm
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very puzzling indeed. This might be a little off topic I recently bought some N fares from east coast to LAX in May, near 4.5cpm. I was really hesitant because it wasn't that great of a deal in terms of cpm but then I thought "its N fare...the lowest fare bucket" so i went ahead and booked it. Was that kind of thinking correct? Could it ever become cheaper?
Mar 17, 2013, 12:03 am
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very puzzling indeed. This might be a little off topic I recently bought some N fares from east coast to LAX in May, near 4.5cpm. I was really hesitant because it wasn't that great of a deal in terms of cpm but then I thought "its N fare...the lowest fare bucket" so i went ahead and booked it. Was that kind of thinking correct? Could it ever become cheaper?