How to Find Booking class (fare bucket code)

[notzac]

Re: Virgin Money credit cards (linked to Velocity rewards)

Sorry, I got that slightly wrong. Turns out it is still an F class (as per a much earlier post) ticket that is required. Unfortunately, I can't see F class tickets on ExpertFlyer for Virgin - that site also suggests that F class is used for First which just adds to my confusion.

Yup, F isn't available via the GDS (it's also the fare bucket used for the "Happy Hour" tickets). You can actually convince the Virgin Australia website to tell you what fare bucket it's showing availability for; search for the ticket you want (lets say, SYD-PER on two random dates in August) and make a dummy booking for the flights you want (the A330 flights of course) in Saver class:

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On the next page, view the HTML source of that page and look for "var fareFamily" (near the top):

var _hbEC=0,_hbE=new Array;function _hbEvent(a,b){b=_hbE[_hbEC++]=new Object();b._N=a;b._C=0;return b;}
var hbx=_hbEvent("pv");hbx.vpc="HBX0250.01a";hbx.gn="wss.virginblue.com.au";
var accountNum = 'DM570318EMCB';
var pageTitleSuffix = 'Guests';
var commerceAccountNum = '975703221985';
var productElement = 'SYD-PER_F_F,PER-SYD_F_F';
[b][size=+1]var fareFamily = 'F,F';[/size][/b]
var catElement ='SYD-PER,PER-SYD';
var priceElement ='149,149';
var qtyElement ='1,1'
var storeElement ='1';

Bolding mine. As you can see, there is F availability on these two flights.
Of course, it might be easier to just call and get them to do all the hard work for you ..

 

[peterincanberra]

Re: Virgin Money credit cards (linked to Velocity rewards)

On the next page, view the HTML source of that page and look for "var fareFamily" (near the top):
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Of course, it might be easier to just call and get them to do all the hard work for you ..

That's useful to know. Thanks notzac.

 

[serfty]

Re: Virgin Money credit cards (linked to Velocity rewards)

This can also be done in a same manner for existing and flown bookings by looking them up online.