M is Business Class?
 

I just did a dummy booking SFO-ICN-NRT-SFO to check on seating availability. The fare classes it quoted were DWKR for the first leg, and M for the next two legs. Since when is M a business fare? Unfortunately, the fare rules link didn't provide any information...

Was business already sold out on those legs?

I've seen that happen before. I never bought a ticket like that, of course, since I wouldn't trust it. I think it's a United.BOMB thing. :td:

As far as I know M is not a business class ticket - which leads me to believe theat 1 leg of your flight is in C and the other in Y. By going to select seats you should be able to confirm your suspicion

However... I once asked for a fully flexible B fare EWR-RDU. For some reason, the first leg booked into B, but the second into Q. But, my ticket was considered a full B, and it was totally flexible. So maybe the booking code on the later legs don't matter??? :confused: :confused: :confused:

Was it all on the same airline? I know that if an airline has a fare, which includes travel on other carriers.

Eg A YTO-DXB Q class fare will only be booked in Q class on the JFK-DXB segment but "N" class on the AA YYZ-JFK segment

Cheera

All UA (of course).

All three legs showed the C seat map. Amazingly, the best C seats are all still open, too...

OP: just curious, what date did you put in, and did you do Multi-city, Search by Schedule or Search by Price?

I'll send you PM. I don't want people running to take away my upgrade seats before I have a chance to get they...

I recently had a ticket for EZE-ORD-SEA where EZE-ORD was in B and ORD-SEA in M. They told me that because of the second leg in B the whole ticket was governed by the M rules and change fees applied.

I saw this a while ago on a test ORD -> HKG round trip. The system showed me a M fare for the return flight because no C was available anymore. Looking at the seat availabiltiy I saw C0 and also the seat map gave me only E seats. Also it was priced lower then the regular C or D fare for the round trip.
So I would guess C is sold out for the return and United.com puts you in E for the return.

I'm willing to bet the OP was trying a stopover @ NRT.

The reason the fare is showing "M" is that this is the internal UA designator for our favorite evil stepchild, the HIP check. ICN fares are **NOT** route based, but mileage-based, which is what is tripping the HIP check.

So it was showing M, but you would get a C seat. You're just paying a heck of a lot more than that published D fare.

Sorry, but you would guess wrong. There's lots of C available on all flights.

Yes, it is a stopver in NRT. A HIP check may have been involved, but the fare was identical to the R/T D fare.