Booking class visible on travelocity. How?
 

Hi everyone,

I'm mostly a reader and very rarely post, so please bare with me in case this is the wrong forum.

I've done a forum search on the issue I have but didn't get any valid results, so here we go.

I mostly book through travelocity, because I like the interface and find it nicer to use over other sites, expedia for example.

What really bugs me that I can't get to see what booking class certain flights I search will be in PRIOR making the purchase. The only way I got to see the booking class code was doing a multi-leg search, and even there it doesn't show everytime.

Is there any way to see the booking class for flight when doing a normal flight search?

If not, what site could you recommend to me, a mere newbie with mileage running and complicated deals? :D

Thanks a lot in advance!
INNflt

After you've selected an itinerary, on the screen where Travelocity displays all the flights in it, there will be "Adult fare rules" under each flight. Click through that which opens up the fare rules, which will have a title "Fare Details for...."

Like this Air Canada example from Travelocity:

Fare details for K14MSLXE
BK CODE

K -

Then about 200 lines of fare rules.

The Fare Code is K for this. You could then determine from the FF rules of your airline whether or not an AC international flight in booking class K would earn the miles you want.

I don't know of any way to tell Travelocity what fare class you want. Yes, you can say Refundable but what I don't think you can do is, for example, to tell it to look for non-refundable fares in W class or higher on United (which are the upgradeable international non-refundable fares.)

Travelocity is actually quite useless for booking anything complicated. It's good for the non-frequent traveler looking for a cheap (not necessarily cheapest) flight.

Even Expedia and Orbitz are better. Expedia is the only one of the three that correctly can put a partner FF# on a reservation - for example putting my United number on an Air Canada flight. Orbitz is the only one of the three which allows specifying up to three preferred airlines instead of just one, and also has a Preferred Alliance search if you don't care which particular three airlines but do want to search all of Star Alliance or Skyteam or oneworld. Also Orbitz is driven underneath by the very competent ITA search engine, so it often finds interesting combinations of airlines to construct cheap fares.

Travelocity has none of those advantages. Clearly the worst of the big three.

THX very much for your reply!
Just realized the fare rules didn't show with the last 2 bookings I made because I had a hotel included in both, so I wasn't able to see the fare rules :o

One more noobish question if you don't mind.....Now, I just booked a 4 flights trip, all TAP Air Portugal flt numbers. They will get me 1250 miles / leg if I recall correctly, but anyway. One of those flts is operated by LH.

If the flt has a TAP flt number, but is on a LH aircraft, do I use the TP or the LH booking codes as reference? Hope I expressed that clearly enough.

thx vm again, after that it's back to reading only for me :D

Good to know you can find it. I looked before and missed that.