Consolidated "Where are the e-fares for this week?" Thread [Merged]
Nov 4, 2008, 9:53 am
#16
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Where are the e-fares for this week?
Dot Bomb seems to be partially down and, in addition, no e-fares are posted yet. Probably overcome by their NEW NEWS.
Nov 4, 2008, 9:58 am
#17
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www.united.com seems to be working fine for me --
but it does report "There are currently no E-Fares available"
http://travel.united.com/ube/efares/us/eFares.do
There are a number of holiday fares
but it does report "There are currently no E-Fares available"
http://travel.united.com/ube/efares/us/eFares.do
There are a number of holiday fares
Nov 4, 2008, 9:59 am
#18
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I don't know, but, as always, you can call up e-fares just by using the usual search-by-schedule approach as long as friday/saturday-monday/tuesday are selected. I'm pulling up CID e-fares just fine. Of course, you have to guess which routings are available this week.
Nov 4, 2008, 10:07 am
#19
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I have been finding E-Fare-like prices for BWI-SFO and SFO-BWI almost every weekend this fall, usually $279 r/t for the non-stops. The fares have been more lenient too -- usually allowing departure on Friday and return on Sunday,
and, depending the week, a same-day turn @ SFO.
A friend bought a ticket last Friday several hours before the flight!
and, depending the week, a same-day turn @ SFO.
A friend bought a ticket last Friday several hours before the flight!
Nov 4, 2008, 11:41 am
#20
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List of E-Fares this week?
According to .bomb, E-Fares wont be available in a list this week, only when you search. Of course, .bomb can't do a search for "anywhere that's on sale", you need to tell it a city. This is great for the one weekend I wanted to do an MR. Anyone have a way to scrape the fare list somewhere and find out whats on sale? I am looking out of NYC, and I see LAX and SFO of course...but I was hoping for something a BIT more exotic. Done the Xcountry too many times. :-)
Nov 4, 2008, 12:18 pm
#21
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What class do those e-fares book in?
Nov 4, 2008, 12:44 pm
#22
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According to .bomb, E-Fares wont be available in a list this week, only when you search. Of course, .bomb can't do a search for "anywhere that's on sale", you need to tell it a city. This is great for the one weekend I wanted to do an MR. Anyone have a way to scrape the fare list somewhere and find out whats on sale? I am looking out of NYC, and I see LAX and SFO of course...but I was hoping for something a BIT more exotic. Done the Xcountry too many times. :-)
Click carrier filter, then click 'only' next to United.
Nov 4, 2008, 2:28 pm
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Nov 4, 2008, 3:19 pm
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I'm wondering if they might be doing a change to the GUI of the e-fares page as they've done to parts of the UA site more recently. Not expecting too much; it wouldn't surprise me if part of .bomb went down for a full week for a small little thing like that.
Nov 4, 2008, 6:14 pm
#25
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http://www.farecompare.com/search/fl...?departure=NYC
Click carrier filter, then click 'only' next to United.
Click carrier filter, then click 'only' next to United.
Nov 5, 2008, 4:55 pm
#26
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It might have to do with Veterans' Day (and perhaps this time being chosen to make changes because it's Veterans' Day). As an indication, all of AA's current weekend specials are for "Next Weekend" -- the weekend after this coming one.
Re UA E-Fares, I thought it was interesting last week when I saw a much broader "This Week's Domestic..." destination list for some cities than I've ever seen before (88 ex-BOS!) but no international destinations ex- anywhere at all. Maybe that converges with the topic of this thread, because all international E-Fares are "Next Week's..." -- e.g., for ~ two weeks out. And that list would have covered this coming weekend. (Glad that I've made myself perfectly clear to myself.....)
Re UA E-Fares, I thought it was interesting last week when I saw a much broader "This Week's Domestic..." destination list for some cities than I've ever seen before (88 ex-BOS!) but no international destinations ex- anywhere at all. Maybe that converges with the topic of this thread, because all international E-Fares are "Next Week's..." -- e.g., for ~ two weeks out. And that list would have covered this coming weekend. (Glad that I've made myself perfectly clear to myself.....)
Nov 5, 2008, 5:25 pm
#27
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It might have to do with Veterans' Day (and perhaps this time being chosen to make changes because it's Veterans' Day). As an indication, all of AA's current weekend specials are for "Next Weekend" -- the weekend after this coming one.
Re UA E-Fares, I thought it was interesting last week when I saw a much broader "This Week's Domestic..." destination list for some cities than I've ever seen before (88 ex-BOS!) but no international destinations ex- anywhere at all. Maybe that converges with the topic of this thread, because all international E-Fares are "Next Week's..." -- e.g., for ~ two weeks out. And that list would have covered this coming weekend. (Glad that I've made myself perfectly clear to myself.....)
Re UA E-Fares, I thought it was interesting last week when I saw a much broader "This Week's Domestic..." destination list for some cities than I've ever seen before (88 ex-BOS!) but no international destinations ex- anywhere at all. Maybe that converges with the topic of this thread, because all international E-Fares are "Next Week's..." -- e.g., for ~ two weeks out. And that list would have covered this coming weekend. (Glad that I've made myself perfectly clear to myself.....)
Nov 10, 2008, 11:07 pm
#28
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E-Fares this week?
Ok, there were none last week listed, and this week we are 5 minutes past when it was due to be posted...I hope this is not going to become a regular thing. I need these fares for MRs. Did I miss a layoff?
Nov 10, 2008, 11:38 pm
#29
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Nada... perhaps email 1PVoice...
Nov 10, 2008, 11:40 pm
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