Fare Basis HAX
 

I have a fare code HAX in an upcoming trip and am wondering if anyone here can enlighten me - never seen anything like this before.

The trip runs

LAX-ORD (L leg)
ORD-CMH (HAX leg)
CMH-LAX (W leg)

I'm wondering, then, if the HAX is some kind of stopover designation? I can see how the fare could be constructed as an ORD stopover with CMH termination... (?)

I thought HAX was just an economy class fare code with no special significance.

Found this thread mentioning it:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...=hax+code+fare

I have seen HAX. Nothing special except it is usually a cheap, refundable fare.

Sure enough... Thanks all.

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Haha, glad I'm not the only one who thinks like that.

OMG HAX!

Do you have a stopover at ORD? If so, that's why that's happening. The fare basically has been constructed as a LAXCHI fare + CHICMH fare + CMHLAX fare since the LAX-CMH fare does not allow stopovers.

Dunno the particular instance, but I've also seen where it was just less expensive to book each leg separately, because the through fare priced into a higher bucket was more than a short fare in a high bucket and one or more in lower buckets. For example, in this case, L+H+W end-on-end might be less than H through.

ITA tends to find these things pretty well.

Exactly. I'm in Chicago for a few days before the onward flight to CMH.

This community has an incredible amount of knowledge. Thanks all.

That fare constructions is called "sum of the locals" where it may be cheaper to have multiple independantly priced fares (usually where LCC's fly and fares are matched) than one fare priced from origin to destination (where there are not LCC's and thus the competitive fare is higher.)

HAX is just a 1 way H fare that is matching a particular LCC in that market. In this case, it is WN. Based on your outbound travel date's advanced purchase and maybe stopover time, pricing like this is most like cheaper than the going rate for CMH-LAX.