How do you find the fare class on Qantas.com ?
May 14, 2013, 3:41 am
#17
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I'm still very confused at how to find the fare class on Qantas.com.... I'm trying to book some "Sale" fares but I can't seem to find anywhere the letter as I would like to accrue the miles on AsiaMiles... but if AsiaMiles does not allow that, then I would put them on Qantas...
I tried the ITA tool but somehow it's not returning the same fares as qantas.com.... ?
I tried the ITA tool but somehow it's not returning the same fares as qantas.com.... ?
May 14, 2013, 5:07 am
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I'm still very confused at how to find the fare class on Qantas.com.... I'm trying to book some "Sale" fares but I can't seem to find anywhere the letter as I would like to accrue the miles on AsiaMiles... but if AsiaMiles does not allow that, then I would put them on Qantas...
I tried the ITA tool but somehow it's not returning the same fares as qantas.com.... ?
I tried the ITA tool but somehow it's not returning the same fares as qantas.com.... ?
May 14, 2013, 9:00 am
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Also, IME the technique in post 8 can now be deployed as follows (which has the advantage of being available one step earlier in the booking process).
Get the page that has the different prices for different flights on the same day.
View the page source.
Use CTRL+F to find, in the source code, the price that you're interested in followed by a full stop. For example, if you see a displayed price of "$139", use CTRL+F to search for "139."
You should see the instances of this price buried in code that reads something like:
In this example, the bolded part of the code shows that it's an O class fare.
I find this to be at least 95% reliable, at least for single sector journeys, which is good enough for me. If there's something I really can't find this way, then I know I can go one step further and try what's in post 9.
Unfortunately, ITA often won't return the low fares that you can see on qantas.com because the relevant fares are not available for sale in ITA's location and no amount of messing about with options can get ITA to show these fares.
Get the page that has the different prices for different flights on the same day.
View the page source.
Use CTRL+F to find, in the source code, the price that you're interested in followed by a full stop. For example, if you see a displayed price of "$139", use CTRL+F to search for "139."
You should see the instances of this price buried in code that reads something like:
{"id":0,"mixedCabins":[],"rbds":["O"],"amountForOne":139.0,"amountForAll":139.0}
I find this to be at least 95% reliable, at least for single sector journeys, which is good enough for me. If there's something I really can't find this way, then I know I can go one step further and try what's in post 9.
Unfortunately, ITA often won't return the low fares that you can see on qantas.com because the relevant fares are not available for sale in ITA's location and no amount of messing about with options can get ITA to show these fares.
May 17, 2013, 1:45 am
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Thanks both for your help. I tried to see the codes on the selection page but was unsuccessful... however, at the Review page, it works better, thanks a lot!
Jun 26, 2013, 11:50 pm
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Here's the link for a revised GreaseMonkey script that works with the new engine (please PM me with any errors or issues): qantas_booking_class.user.js
(For that that had the previous version of the script loaded I suggest you uninstall that for housekeeping before loading this new one.)
Jun 27, 2013, 12:06 am
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Thanks serfty.
Seems to work OK.
Note for others.
This script will pop up a text box showing the booking class as you move between the "Select" and "Check" (formerly Review) Tabs in the Qantas booking engines.
Note that the method described in post #19 on the Select page still seems to work as well.
Seems to work OK.
Note for others.
This script will pop up a text box showing the booking class as you move between the "Select" and "Check" (formerly Review) Tabs in the Qantas booking engines.
Show Qantas Booking Class Utility:
The Fare buckets for your selected flights are:
Journey 1: QF429 (SYD/MEL), Class: Q
Journey 2: QF466 (MEL/SYD), Class: O
Click OK to continue
The Fare buckets for your selected flights are:
Journey 1: QF429 (SYD/MEL), Class: Q
Journey 2: QF466 (MEL/SYD), Class: O
Click OK to continue
Last edited by moa999; Jun 27, 2013 at 12:14 am
Jun 27, 2013, 8:25 pm
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On the "Check" page, looking at the page source and searching for "classes" should work for all journeys. How to do this will differ from browser to browser.
Happy wandering
Fred
Happy wandering
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Dec 3, 2015, 2:00 pm
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For a short cut I have set up a greasemonkey script to summarise booking information into the floating left hand menu.
Anyone can directly load it using this link: Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey Script for Qantas MMB booking summary display
Install Greasemonkey (Firefox) or Tampermonkey (Chrome) before installing the above script.
Last edited by serfty; Dec 3, 2015 at 4:23 pm
Jan 15, 2017, 5:09 pm
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Probably a "more correct" observation.
Pages haven't worked for me for weeks on Firefox and today failed on Chrome. But then again I'm still on XP....
Happy wandering
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Oct 26, 2017, 3:35 pm
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Use FireFox.
Look in the source of the "Flight Bookings - Review" page¹ for entries "rdb":"x" where x will represent the booking fare bucket for the segment.
The occurrences are in order of flight segments and are repeated.
To make it easier to see, I copy the entire content of the source to a notepad++ document and replace all occurrences of "rbd":" with \r\n"rbd":" using 'extended' search mode.
¹ The one after you select the flights.
Look in the source of the "Flight Bookings - Review" page¹ for entries "rdb":"x" where x will represent the booking fare bucket for the segment.
The occurrences are in order of flight segments and are repeated.
To make it easier to see, I copy the entire content of the source to a notepad++ document and replace all occurrences of "rbd":" with \r\n"rbd":" using 'extended' search mode.
Code:
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"rbd":"S","cachedOperatingCarrierCode":"QF_0","realCabinCode":"E","flightNumberToDisplay":"427","cachedAirlineCode":"QF","duration":5700000,"endLocationCode":"MEL1","beginCityName":"Sydney","endCityName":"Melbourne","beginLocationCode":"SYD3"}],"itemId":"1","opAirlines":[],"subsidiar
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Last edited by serfty; Oct 26, 2017 at 8:48 pm