ticket classes?

[Matthew Green]

Hi All, just wanting to know if there is an easy way to know what the different classes of tickets are e.g all the A through Z letters that apparently mean something.. J being usually business class? including seats allocated to frequent flyers etc?

I have been looking on www.seatcounter.com and there are lots of classes listed, but no explanation?

thanks in advance for your answers!

Matthew

[Justin L]

Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_class

Hope this helps.

[Matthew Green]

Thanks Justin, that explains most of it, although is there a way to see if there are any business class FF seats available??

thanks

Matthew

[Jason Carruthers]

Just keep in mind that there is just about zero consistency in fare classes among different airlines worldwide. Alliance partners may have some common classes. For example O class on QF are heavily discounted "Red-E-Deal" fares where on DJ O class is used for one of the more expensive flexible fares. The only way of finding out what codes airlines use for what is if you have access to a GDS (ie Galileo, Amadeus, Sabre etc.). IIRC seatcounter used to show award availability for Star Alliance carriers but no longer do.




Jason

[Matthew Green]

thanks Jason, can anyone tell me what the QF FFlyer Business class "Class" is?

Matthew

[Michael Morrison]

QF Awards seats for business are "U" bucket.

[Matthew Green]

Thanks Michael;)

[Matthew Green]

thanks for the replies, but "U" class is not shown on www.seatcounter.com does anyone know any other way to find out available seat numbers for this class(QF Bus class)?

thanks:)

Matthew

[Michael Morrison]

You need to subscribe to a tool like Expert flyer or KVS which linbk into the airlines GDS systems. Alternatively, log onto Qantas Frequent Flyer and search for flexible dates and business inventory.

[Greg McDonald]

Just noticed that www.seatcounter.com refers to V Australia flights as Volare Airlines!!

[Erik H. Bakke]

I've actually had frequent flyer points earning denied on a fully paid, fully flexible business class ticket.

The ticket was with a partner airline of the FF program, but the code they used for the fully flexible business class was the same code as the host airline used for one of its award ticket classes.

Took 4 phone calls and a few letters to sort it out, so this kind of stuff can be confusing even for those who work in the industry.

[Andrew P]

Conversely I have rewarded FF miles while using a redemption ticket

flight was booked by AA and redemption ticket was issued by AA, but flight was on CX, and CX gave me the miles nad it was in F class!!!

[Erik H. Bakke]

Nice one indeed.