Fare Bucket for Military/Government ticket
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Delete please. Duplicated.
Another useful site is the GSA city pair. https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book...y-pair-program
Another useful site is the GSA city pair. https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book...y-pair-program
Last edited by Kmxu; Mar 12, 2024 at 7:22 am Reason: duplicated
Mar 12, 2024, 7:21 am
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If United is not a contract carrier, the fare class can vary greatly. If you want to find it out on united.com, you can do the following steps.
1) Scroll down all way to the bottom on united.com
2) Click "Product and services"
3) Click "U.S. military and government travel"
4) Click "Flight reservations for official business"
5) Input your search information
For the YYZ-KOA example, the government refundable fare is in T class. HNL-YYZ is in Y class (YCA).
Another useful site is the GSA city pair. https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book...y-pair-program
1) Scroll down all way to the bottom on united.com
2) Click "Product and services"
3) Click "U.S. military and government travel"
4) Click "Flight reservations for official business"
5) Input your search information
For the YYZ-KOA example, the government refundable fare is in T class. HNL-YYZ is in Y class (YCA).
Another useful site is the GSA city pair. https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book...y-pair-program
Mar 12, 2024, 7:54 am
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CA = Contract, Award
CB = Contract, Business (class)
DG = Discount, Government
The first two are negotiated and authorized by the General Services Administration (GSA), while the latter are offered unilaterally by airlines.
Yes, the form of the coach fares is indeed YCA, _CA, YDG, or _DG where the fare category varies by carrier.
See, e.g., https://www.travel.dod.mil/Support/A...ommercial-air/
Mar 12, 2024, 9:34 am
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looking at random dates, going Yto to koa, I mostly see a mix of S and T fares.
from hnl-Yto, there are a variety of fare types. In at least one case, it appears United will sell a y_ca by constructing travel, eg HNL-ORD, ORD-YTO. (They may do the same for koa)
Now whether or not you’d find the same availability in DTS is another story, and you have to use the CTO except in very limited situations. But calling an agent, they may be able to pull these up if DTS doesn’t.