Patron

Air Canada (AC)
BC: J C D S
EC: Y M B H V T N Q L Z W E G I K R U X

Air New Zealand (NZ)
FC: F A O
BC: C D I R Z U
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W L T

All Nippon Airways (NH)
FC: F A O
BC: C D I J
EC: Y B M X N W K L S T G

Asiana Airlines (OZ)
FC: F A P O
BC: C D I R J Z
EC: U Y E B M H Q V F K W G L T X N

Austrian (OS)
BC: C D I R
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W G S

British midland (BD) - short haul
BC: C D I R J
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S K G T E O

British midland (BD) - long haul
BC: C D I R J
EC: U L Z Y B M H Q X N V W T

LOT Polish Airlines (LO)
BC: J C D Z I W
EC: Y M L H K B V G Q

Lufthansa (LH)
FC: F A O
BC: C D I R Z
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W E S Z

Scandinavian Airlines (SK)
BC: C D I R A J Z
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W G K O T

Singapore Airlines (SQ)
FC: F A O P
BC: C D I J Z
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W U E G K T

Spanair (JK)
BC: C D I R J
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S L T G

Thai Airways International (TG)
FC: F A P O Z
BC: C D I R J
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S L T G K

United Airlines (UA)
FC: F A P O
BC: C D I
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S L T G

VARIG (RG)
FC: F A P O
BC: C D I R J Z
EC: Y B M H Q X N V W S L T G

Explanations:
FC: First Code
BC: Business Code
EC: Economy Code
Letters in regular faces: *A common booking class alignment (all *A members other than AC & LO are aligned)
Letters in bold faces: carrier specific exceptions
Letters in italics: FFP Redemption Codes

Source: Reference Guide for Employees of Star Alliance Member Carriers, Seventh Edition.

flamboyant 1

Wonderful compilation!

kempis

For SK you can add S between Y and M. Personally I have never seen O on SK. Nice job.

LH738

^ ^ ^ excellent

Point_Chaser

Also L can be added to the end of the list. These are deeply discounted promotional fares!

schoflyer

Thanks. Actually saved me a call tonight to ANA.

Kiwi Flyer

Thanks Patron ^ ^ ^

peter42

With Lufthansa you left K,L,T and G out in Eco and Z is Business only AFAIK.
R.N and E is employee travel.

Football Fan

Thanks! ^

Patron

I opened this thread on continuous special requests from some fellow flyertalker within the last half year.

I see the strength in this compilation to know about the quality of a specific booking class, especially for mileage/voucher redemption purposes. The weakness, that this list is already outdated. My source is the latest printed addition of the *A product & service guide I have access to (unfortunately - as peter42 pointed out - there are typing errors). If I gain access to an updated edition, I will edit the opener, but as the system is so volatile and there are individual exceptions all the time, I stick to this product.

IMO for individual needs on specific flights the best source available for the general public I know is this availability tool.

LondonElite

Patron

Many thanks for this...you've saved me a lot of time on my upcoming beach holiday!

Gaucho100K

Gracias Patron... ^

Gnopps

Thank you, it looks great!

RichardMEL

I think this should be made a sticky thread

Rudi

Danke Patron.

Moderators (= Patron) please make this a sticky thread

AntonS

Great info, Patron. Thank you!
One comment. I just booked LOT Polish business class award using United miles and my ticket shows booking class I, not Z.

Savage25

Adding to the list of thanks! ^

Adding to the list of booking classes: "S" class for bookings on Executive Economy (SIN-EWR and SIN-LAX nonstops) for SQ

skye

Great list, but what about cathay pacific?

GeneCMH

I vote for it being made a sticky too ^

Would it be possible to add the US codes to the list as well, as they're officially joining on May 4th?

Kiwi Flyer

Another vote for sticky

BlondeBomber

Thanks--another reason I love FT! ^

Almschi

Vielen Dank Patron!
Eine wunderbare Übersicht. Man könnte noch die ganzen Kombi-Tarife z.B. bei Lufthansa ergänzen ;-)
LH Y* G K L T (Y* nicht zu verwechseln mit dem regulären Y!)

English: (not so good!)
Thanks Patron!
a great view. There a some spezial LH Bookingsclasses.

dulcamara

Same here with LH. I did an upgrade for me and an award ticket for Frau D. Both showed up as I.

Andrew Yiu

LOT realigned their booking class recently. (The codes for LOT in Patron's original post are LOT's original booking codes)

So award business class on LO will be I and X for economy class. (No First class).

ThWilmesi

Greay post, it helped understand me one of my current issued flight tickets with ANA ^

Gnopps

I believe Spanair has Z as their discount business-class.

hclee01

Hi,

Thanks for the great compilation.

Will be a bonus if we can highlight the booking classes which *A members will not be able to earn/accrue mileage points (e.g. on SIA - "Q" class)

Great work though!

Kiwi Flyer

Nice idea, but would make for a messy table as they can vary by FFP which is being credited (or not in this case if you get what I mean!). Perhaps highlight only those which dont earn mileage for any *A FFP?

MikeLaw

Here's the US codes for you:

F A - first (domestic only) E/O/P used for upgraders/awards
C D Z - business (international) I/R used for upgraders/awards
GHKLMNQSTUVWXY - coach

Kiwi Flyer

Thanks mikelaw

Can you (or someone) please rank the codes from full fare to most heavily discounted within the classes?

Cheers

MikeLaw

I have but a few moments before I have to leave the lounge, but you can see the full list here. The whole thread has a few other tidbits.

cesco.g

'R' First Class - free ticket using miles
'X' First Class UPGRADE from Business
'O' Business Class - free ticket using miles
'I' Business Class UPGRADE from Economy
'N' Economy Class - free ticket using miles
'E' Economy Class free ticket (special inventory for 1Ks )

cslusarc

Will AC harmonize its booking classes with the rest of the alliance?


Please correct the order of booking classes:

Air Canada (AC)
BC: J C D S
EC: [freedom]Y [latitude] M U A [econo] B H V Q L W
EC: [fun*] R I G [tango*] E N P T [other] K X Z
*available online only

mahasamatman

Discounted Business Class on UA is a Z fare.

jumbo

I have an LH award all booked in (I) with just one segment on SQ
when I view my list of flights on LH website, it shows them all as "business class I" except the SQ flight which says, "business class flexible I"

Anyone know why the word flexible should be in there? I did ask the senator hotline but they didn't seem to know, but they did confirm it would be in business class.

Rudi

my jan-2004 award flight in First on SQ ZRH-SIN-MEL, 'paid' with LH miles, issued by LH FRA, showed as confirmation and on the ticket only eco-class - but when I enquired at SQ in ZRH before the flights, they said that it's allright (in F) and confirmed my preferred seats than.

It worked out as promised.

jumbo

Thanks Rudi,
I was concerned about it, as it's damn difficult to put things right when your the other side of the world...i'm still surprised LH didn't have a complete explanation for the "flexible" wording part??

madman

Does anyone know if there are special booking codes for RTW flights?
Also, if RTW flights (in Y) count as "full" or "discounted" when it comes to miles?
Thanks!

Rudi

I can email you a MS word-document with all the rules including booking classes (rtw light, and all other rtw fares and classes). my email address [email protected]

depends of the Frequent Flier program you use, the flight carriers and if it is a Star-rtw-'light' ticket, with some program also if it is an international/or a national flight-segment, etc. etc.

schoflyer

I know that ANA does a "special" BC in Z class.