Help with dom biz sale fares

[jaffa]

Hi
Been 2 years since i flew due to illness.

Have been looking at a return tsv-syd via bne in J for confrence.
I remember you could book J saver fares, i think they were usually an QF I class fare.
But cannot seem to find pricing as J C D fares are the only to show on expert flyer.
All flights l am looking at have heaps of availability in I class. J,D.C are also well available

Has it changed that you cannot now purchase J savers?
Or do you have to ring and especially ask QF for them.
Or maybe i'm just a dinosaur now and am past it. Duh!

any advice welcome
Cheers

 

[Mattg]

What dates are you looking for?

It may be that there are currently no sales on.

 

[jaffa]

thanks for reply..

Mon March 19th... QF 971 Tsv-Bne (I avail 9) - QF 541 Bne-Syd (I avail 6)... full J fare $1228
Wedn March 21st QF 562 Syd-Bne (I avail 9) - QF 978 Bne-Tsv ( I avail 8) Full J fare $1228

The QF website used to show Jsaver and Full J fares.
The Jsavers used to be more restricted than full J hence the cheaper fare.
But now seems to be no choice at all.

Maybe they are now hidden fares
If not why the availabilty in the fare bucket " I "
one would assume if not avail then " I " would show as zero

Thanks for your interest
Been ages since l did this stuff..

Oh the new site here looks great.
Much easyier to use than the old one.
Took me a while to find my way around
after 2 years seems its a whole new world in here....

Cheers

 

[Mattg]

I can see what you mean. The Qantas website is only showing "D" class. I also see "I" class availability in Expert Flyer but not anywhere else - not the Qantas website, or any other online travel agent website. Not sure why Expert Flyer shows availability but I don't think those fares are actually available right now.

If the trip wasn't next month, I would say wait for a sale. But it's unlikely the fares will be reduced less than a month out. If you have any frequent flyer points you could redeem points for this booking.

 

[whughes3]

I suspect that the "I" bucket on domestic is normally used only in conjunction with international "I" bookings, which are much more common.

 

[Mattg]

I suspect that the "I" bucket on domestic is normally used only in conjunction with international "I" bookings, which are much more common.

I think you're on to something. That sounds about right. Out of interest I just had a look and it will let you book "I" class out of TSV if connecting to AKL (or anywhere else overseas).

Interestingly, a return J fare TSV-BNE-AKL on those dates is $1,413 while the return fare for TSV-BNE-SYD is $2,456.