Help with GPU-eligible fare to SGN
Sep 8, 2018, 11:07 pm
#16
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Many fares are "one-way", but two of these can normally be combined to form a "round trip".
However this one is a one-way fare :
ONE WAY ADVANCE PURCHASE FARES W
APPLIES FOR ONE WAY FARES
APPLIES FOR ONE WAY FARES
Category 10: Combinability
SINGLE/DOUBLE OPEN JAWS/ROUND TRIPS/CIRCLE TRIPS NOT
PERMITTED.
SINGLE/DOUBLE OPEN JAWS/ROUND TRIPS/CIRCLE TRIPS NOT
PERMITTED.
Sep 8, 2018, 11:08 pm
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To get some more options, you can also use :
AUS:: UA+ ? /f bc=w bc=v bc=q
SGN:: ? UA+ /f bc=w bc=v bc=q
This will show you some routing via ORD, as well as some options on NH.
Occasionally you'll find V fares that are cheaper than W, so it's worth including it in the searches, although his time it does look like W is the lowest.
AUS:: UA+ ? /f bc=w bc=v bc=q
SGN:: ? UA+ /f bc=w bc=v bc=q
This will show you some routing via ORD, as well as some options on NH.
Occasionally you'll find V fares that are cheaper than W, so it's worth including it in the searches, although his time it does look like W is the lowest.
Note that there are supposed to be vertical bar characters between the BCs, but they're being stripped by the forum software. (Shift-\ on a US keyboard layout).
Agreed; that's probably what the OP was running into when trying to construct this originally. However, the round-trip W fares seem to be filed at about the same price point.
Sep 8, 2018, 11:15 pm
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Not sure if that was the form software or a cut-n-paste error, but editing the post and putting them back in done appear to have worked. Thanks for pointing it out!
Sep 8, 2018, 11:22 pm
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Sep 9, 2018, 11:53 am
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Sep 10, 2018, 9:16 am
#21
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As noted, the WLRCVAO fare is for the SGN market, and needs to be on a PNR with an origin in SE Asia. You cannot combine it into a round-trip on a single US-origin PNR. You should use whichever of that or jsloan's solutions costs less unless there is some significant benefit to making them on the same ticket.
Sep 10, 2018, 9:38 am
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Fair point (fare point?). I booked a SFO-SYD-BNE-SYD-SFO trip recently. I'd originally been lazy and checked the prices in W only. Then I looked it up on the UA website and it found what I wanted for a cheaper fare - at which point I discovered it was in V, and V was cheaper than W. It's also not uncommon for no W fare to be booked for certain routes.
Not sure if that was the form software or a cut-n-paste error, but editing the post and putting them back in done appear to have worked. Thanks for pointing it out!
Not sure if that was the form software or a cut-n-paste error, but editing the post and putting them back in done appear to have worked. Thanks for pointing it out!