Booking Code E on Non-Ted/Non-Award Flight
All,
As many of you know, I work for a European company (though now I have a DIFFERENT European company to work for), so I get weird stuff from time to time. So, as part of my most recent itinerary, a combination of UA/AA flights in a nice, looping circle, I get this while I'm upgrading: Denver Colorado (DEN) to Boston Massachusetts (BOS) XXX, Jun X United Airlines 0726 Flight: Confirmed Jun XX 06:25 PM depart DEN Jun XX 12:07 AM arrival BOS Cabin: United Economy Seat: N/A Fare Basis Code: EUA Booking class: E Fare Rules What is booking class E? It's listed in the current pile as former 1K only inventory, but also a Ted booking class. This flight is neither. Where does this sit in the hierarchy? Timothy Yes... I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to be upgraded. Sheesh. |
The hierarchy is like this for coach booking classes: Y/B/M/E/U/H/Q/V/W/S/T/L/K.
Y and B are treated as full fare, while Y/B/M/E/U classes qualify for Economy Plus for customers with no elite status in Mileage Plus. E and U classes are no longer Ted-only booking classes. |
E seems to be unrestricted, matched fares in Southwest markets where fares are capped at $299 each way.
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Originally Posted by JY4D
E seems to be unrestricted, matched fares in Southwest markets where fares are capped at $299 each way.
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Its not that they don't exist in other markets, it just seems to be the matching $299 unrestricted fare in a lot of Southwest markets.
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Es and Us are showing up on markets without WN service, such as SEA-SFO-JFK.
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I had to recently rebook a trip originally in T (LAX-ORD-EZE) to (LAX-IAD-EZE) due to a schedule change. The LAX-IAD-LAX portions rebooked into E, while the EZE portions remained in T.
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Originally Posted by JY4D
E seems to be unrestricted, matched fares in Southwest markets where fares are capped at $299 each way.
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I guess it really does vary then. So much for me trying to figure out patterns.
I just booked a SMF-LAX on a "matching Southwest" unrestricted fare today and the fare basis was "VA". |
Been many reports of "E" and its metamorphosis in recent months.
A fair bit of discussion in final posts here, and I changed the wording of it on the fares code thread a month back and added a hierarchy list at that time: Click for a detailed compilation - listing and outlining all known UA revenue/award/upgrade booking codes "A - Z" (and details and validity of many UA Upgrade Certificates) and how to (mostly!) access and view them on: www.ual.com |
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The hierarchy is like this for coach booking classes: Y/B/M/E/U/H/Q/V/W/S/T/L/K. I posted the following based on a UA published fare hierarchical profile that was posted. See last posts on that thread. I was surprised that E and U trumped H, but I do not write profiles. Just record results of them. :) Are you saying that is already outdated? P/F/C/D/Y/A/B/E/M/U/H/Q/V/W/S/T |
Ok... just wanted to clarify something on the E fare, then, now that I feel like I WON'T be sitting in 24E in the back of the plane for nearly four hours. The EUA rated ticket purchased for me wasn't a Web fare, not a Ted Fare and most likely not a competitive match fare (the only LCC fare against UA on that route is JetBlue and the flight is a redeye departing five hours later). So, what does it make this fare?
Timothy |
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