Super Saver Cheaper than red-edeal?

[tassiedude]

Booking a flight in Spetember I noticed that the Super Saver Fare is $50 Cheaper than the red-edeal I am confused to how this can be?

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Regards,

 

[Evan]

One would presume just to a fare rule being in force for that fare basis and then not having a special on the lower fare basis.... odd but easy to explain.

 

[harvyk]

It happens from time to time, I would assume it's because they have sold more Red E Deal fares than Super Savers and it's means that the fares still available in the Red E Deal bucket are the more expensive "cheap" fares, whilst the fares left in the Super Saver bucket are the cheaper "expensive saver" fares...

 

[Mal]

I believe it's caused by no Red-e-deal availability (or lack of available seats in a low fare bucket), causing the red-e-deal to be a mixed bucket fare.

It's common on 2 connecting flights, and also one way tickets overseas.

 

[oz_mark]

I believe it's caused by no Red-e-deal availability (or lack of available seats in a low fare bucket), causing the red-e-deal to be a mixed bucket fare.

It's common on 2 connecting flights, and also one way tickets overseas.

This is the most likely cause. If one of the flights is a super saver and one a red-e-deal then the price shown will be close to the sum of the two fares. In the supersaver case, it indicates that LST-MEL-SYD is being sold as a through fare.

Easiest thing to do is look at the flights individually (LST-MEL and MEL-SYD and I would expect that one of them will not have red-e-deal available.

 

[serfty]

Look up the booking codes (using this method: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qant...-find-fare-class-qantas-com.html#post10514972 )

There can be two reasons.

One is as previously stated.

The other is the the LST-SYD saver fare allows for connecting in MEL while the red e-deal is costing as two one-ways due to different booking classes.

 

[serfty]

OK,

I can see this on Sept 4.

The $292 is an S and an O class fare, the $247 is S and S.

Now the $291.08 is composed of:

• S class LST-MEL of $159.54,
• O class MEL-SYD at $93.55 (Total fare: $253.09) and
• 
  of $37.99

The $246.81 is:

• S fare $212.84 LST to SYD fare and
• 
  of $33.97.

Via MEL is a permitted routing at no additional cost for most LST-SYD QF fares as there is no direct flight, but the booking classes generally need to be the same for each segment. Since there is no O class available LST-MEL on QF2280 then the individual fare segments are accumulated.

SPECIFIED ROUTE: 9009
LST-MEL-SYD

 

[Flashback]

More than likely it includes a JetSaver fare, which always puts the price in the 2nd column.

 

[tassiedude]

More than likely it includes a JetSaver fare, which always puts the price in the 2nd column.

No it is all flying Qantas

Thanks for the help anyway.

I decided to go out of Virgin Blue using Velocity Points and Back on a QFF Redemption with the routing SYD-CBR-MEL-LST.

Looking forward to going to canberra for an hour