G is now a revenue fare for United
Jan 29, 2011, 12:46 am
#46
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Virgin America's last flights from YYZ are April 4 or 5th, I believe. And I guess that's a good reason why UA would have K fares in SFO/LAX - YYZ. I bet those fares are pretty much gone already now.
Jan 29, 2011, 5:34 am
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Not sure... Some airlines have changed the fare code to create one specifically for government contract that prevents instant upgrades for those fares and pushes them down in the fare order...
In the past, some airlines would book government fares directly into Y, which meant instant upgrades or puts government employees at the very top of the upgrade list... Now that is not the case anymore...
However, I do not know where UA puts those fares in the upgrade order and whether they are eligible for UDU or not...
In the past, some airlines would book government fares directly into Y, which meant instant upgrades or puts government employees at the very top of the upgrade list... Now that is not the case anymore...
However, I do not know where UA puts those fares in the upgrade order and whether they are eligible for UDU or not...
Back in the days of automatic free upgrades on UA for full Y fares the rules specifically excluded government Y fares. We had to use SWUs, CR-1s, 500 milers or miles to upgrade a gov Y fare.
The gov fare basis you get booked into depends on the contract for that route, the buckets that are available at the time of booking, and the current price. If the contract only stipulates a YCA fare for a particular route you always get a YCA. For other routes you can get just about any fare basis. So a flight that is being offered to the general public for cheap will probably book into a lower bucket (such as TCA). For higher priced flights you're likely to get booked into YCA but still at a much lower price than the current open market price since the YCA fare is capped by the GSA contract.
Feb 3, 2011, 5:27 pm
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Cannot apply E-certs
Seems like E-certs cannot be used on the G fare 
Hopefully that just means they have not re-programmed the system yet, as the new G fare is also a published fare.
Hopefully that just means they have not re-programmed the system yet, as the new G fare is also a published fare.
Feb 3, 2011, 7:15 pm
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1K agent that I spoke to last night mentioned how G was still listed as a travel agent fare in her system, and should not be showing up online. When I mentioned that it was there, she said something about UA & CO working towards common fare classes, etc..
Feb 3, 2011, 11:24 pm
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Feb 4, 2011, 6:52 am
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G class use to be used for booking NRPS (positive space) bookings for employee travel.
Feb 4, 2011, 2:03 pm
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Not so sure about that. I talked to a couple of people and the indication is G will give you regular miles but not elite miles.
Elite and regular miles fares: Y,B,M,E,U,H,Q,V,W,S,T,L,K
Only regular miles: X,I,O,G
Update: I now called Mileage Plus again any the lady told me G will get both regular and Elite miles. So who knows. I would hate to book a few flights for EQM's and find out I just got regular miles. If you do get EQM's, then Elite Silver status can be had for around $800. Doesn't seem too bad.
Elite and regular miles fares: Y,B,M,E,U,H,Q,V,W,S,T,L,K
Only regular miles: X,I,O,G
Update: I now called Mileage Plus again any the lady told me G will get both regular and Elite miles. So who knows. I would hate to book a few flights for EQM's and find out I just got regular miles. If you do get EQM's, then Elite Silver status can be had for around $800. Doesn't seem too bad.
Last edited by iluv2fly; Feb 4, 2011 at 3:10 pm Reason: merge
Feb 4, 2011, 2:42 pm
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I booked a G-fare MR this past week (I didn't know about this thread or G fares in general) and at least my Upgrade is Waitlisted...
I'll report back if I get mileage credit or not, but this has got me mad for sure, since I've never had to worry about mileage credits before the merger!
-jeremy
I'll report back if I get mileage credit or not, but this has got me mad for sure, since I've never had to worry about mileage credits before the merger!
-jeremy
Feb 4, 2011, 3:15 pm
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Clarification....booked 5 MR's phx-phl for 179.
Talked to mileage plus...at first he said no they do not earn EQM, but do earn RDM.
However after I mentioned all my flights were codeshared UA/CO...with CO metal in G fare...he stated those flights will earn 100% EQM/RDM.
edit- Called 2nd time and she also confirmed this for me.
Talked to mileage plus...at first he said no they do not earn EQM, but do earn RDM.
However after I mentioned all my flights were codeshared UA/CO...with CO metal in G fare...he stated those flights will earn 100% EQM/RDM.
edit- Called 2nd time and she also confirmed this for me.
Last edited by qoodoo; Feb 4, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Feb 4, 2011, 4:52 pm
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I sure hope the G fare earns both EQM and RDM. I was about to book a trip just now, but saw that one of the legs were on a G fare... so now I'd rather wait and see what happens. Hope someone reports back soon with their experiences.
Feb 4, 2011, 11:33 pm
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See no reason this shouldn't earn RDMs & EQMs as any other discount economy fare. It is the practice of UA & CO (now) to have all paid published fares as mileage earning. (note occasionally UA has offered a Tware G fare that did not earn miles)
Feb 5, 2011, 12:00 am
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Perfect. Thanks. Will report after it posts. Fare just popped up yesterday within my 24 hour cancellation window and knocked my $650 trip down to $250.
