Understanding fare class availability
Mar 15, 2018 | 3:26 am
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Understanding fare class availability
I'm checking availability on the routing KNO-CGK-LHR on GA on 17th April.
The KNO-CGK leg shows L9 (L is the cheapest class) H9 S9, etc., but CGK-LHR shows L0 H0 with S9 the cheapest class.
However, if I check the flights separately, both KNO-CGK and CGK-LHR have L9.
Is there a particular reason why this would be?
The KNO-CGK leg shows L9 (L is the cheapest class) H9 S9, etc., but CGK-LHR shows L0 H0 with S9 the cheapest class.
However, if I check the flights separately, both KNO-CGK and CGK-LHR have L9.
Is there a particular reason why this would be?
Mar 15, 2018 | 3:43 am
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not specific to GA but airlines have different availabilities for different routes, even if it is the same plane, it's a different market in terms of supply & demand and what people are willing to pay
Mar 15, 2018 | 6:09 am
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I want lhr-cgk returning kno-cgk-lhr, which is 120 more than lhr-cgk-lhr, meanwhile the price of the kno-cgk ticket one-way is only 50. It's UAM so makes it more complicated otherwise I'd just book two tickets.
Mar 18, 2018 | 7:18 pm
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Do not book the legs as separate tickets. If something goes wrong with the first flight and you do not show up for the second flight then you are treated as a no-show for the second flight and will forfeit the fare.
Mar 22, 2018 | 3:21 am
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As noted above, this is driven by complicated and dynamic demand/supply algorithms and tweaked by revenue management. The armchair EF user is not going to crack the system of why a certain market sells a different combination of fare classes for different prices and different rules from another. If you want to save 70 by self-connecting without any onward protection should there be a problem, then that is your choice. You may find it comes at a great cost.