new J (business) booking class shows up
Oct 26, 2009, 12:45 am
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Oct 26, 2009, 12:47 am
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Oct 26, 2009, 10:28 am
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Ahem... Let me explain the J fare in terms of an simile...
The new J fare like an inflight M. Night Shamalan movie.
Timothy
You will be 30,000 feet over the surface of the earth. There will be suspense. There will be a twist. And there will be disappointment.
Timothy
You will be 30,000 feet over the surface of the earth. There will be suspense. There will be a twist. And there will be disappointment.
Oct 26, 2009, 11:19 am
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UA now uses booking code J
Just doing a dummy standard award booking and I'm seeing J class in the fare buckets... doesn't look like it took the place of C, D, Z.
I see the following for my SFO-HKG flight on Thanksgiving:
XF0 NF0 J9 XC0 NC0
Any thoughts?
I see the following for my SFO-HKG flight on Thanksgiving:
XF0 NF0 J9 XC0 NC0
Any thoughts?
Oct 26, 2009, 12:21 pm
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I just did a couple dummy booking on .bomb and I'm not able to even see any buckets like XF0 NF1 XC0 NC3. All I see are all the fare classes. Is this something new for UAL?
Oct 26, 2009, 12:24 pm
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Oct 26, 2009, 12:43 pm
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WineCountryUA I've tried both. No upgrade available buckets are showing up when I log into .bomb. I've even looked at an award trip I have booked and nothing shows up.
Oct 26, 2009, 12:46 pm
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Oct 26, 2009, 1:04 pm
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J is not the only change I keep noticing. Another development is how Y=0 on many flights around Xmas even with Q9V9 etc.
Oct 31, 2009, 6:04 pm
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Oct 31, 2009, 9:49 pm
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J fares have been post
and J>C=D>Z
and J>C=D>Z
Nov 7, 2009, 4:07 am
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Interestingly, the current offical Contract Of Carriage (where such new classes MUST be listed to be legally valid AFAIK!) in 4 month old, and makes no mention of J.
http://content.united.com/ual/asset/COC24junfinal.pdf
CLASS OF SERVICE TO OR FROM SUCH INTERMEDIATE POINT(S).
D) A FARE CONSTRUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 5) BELOW.
NOTE: FOR THE PURPOSE OF PARAGRAPHS A), B) AND C), FARES ARE
PUBLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING DESCENDING CLASS OF SERVICE/BOOKING CODE
ORDER:
1) FIRST CLASS:
BOOKING CODE: F
2) RESTRICTED FIRST CLASS:
BOOKING CODE: P
BOOKING CODE: A
3) BUSINESS CLASS:
BOOKING CODE: C
4) RESTRICTED BUSINESS CLASS:
BOOKING CODE: D
BOOKING CODE: Z
5) COACH CLASS:
BOOKING CODE: Y
etc, and down thru coach codes
Dec 6, 2009, 7:48 am
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Might have missed seeing it posted, but has there been a new COC loaded?
Dec 24, 2009, 4:32 am
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Just ran into J fares (JXRT and JWRT to be specific) for the first time, on NRT-TPE. Good to see the info in this thread... didn't know it was going to supersede C as the new "full fare" biz.
Dec 24, 2009, 11:15 am
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Does this mean that only J, C are good for GS requal? Not that it should matter to me... 