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The cheapest EY business class tickets are no longer offering lounge access or seat selection. Have been monitoring a fare for a few days – this just seems to have kicked in overnight.
In their defence the discount for the cheapest fares is pretty slim.
The cheapest EY business class tickets are no longer offering lounge access or seat selection. Have been monitoring a fare for a few days – this just seems to have kicked in overnight.
In their defence the discount for the cheapest fares is pretty slim.
Oh that’s a shame, they’ve had a great run of discount fares over from various places in Europe recently, hopefully lounge access isn’t too much more? What’s the price difference with lounge access?
It’s pretty marginal, £20-£30 per person on a two sector flight. Also gets you a limo in Abu Dhabi and far more generous cancellation terms, so I wouldn’t be all that surprised if the fares changed as well in due course. The premium is unchanged from business value to comfort compared to what I was seeing yesterday.
Interesting that for the trip I’m looking at in the summer, Etihad is pricing significantly lower than many other airlines. Surely a bit late to be trying to pad the books ahead of IPO…
They announced the changes to the fares a few weeks ago. They became effective today though.
I have a business value ticket LHR-AUH-NRT return.
It’s not clear what happens if you upgrade a leg to F, for example one of the LHR-AUH flights. Does that count as a full ticket reissue meaning no lounge on the non-upgraded legs? So if I upgrade the inbound AUH-LHR leg and it goes through a few hours before the NRT-AUH flight as expected, then I turn up at NRT and have no lounge access?
The rules should apply from the time you bought the ticket, so if you bought more than a week ago, there ought to be no problem.
What mechanic were you going to try to use to upgrade? the last minute auction? If so I doubt that will change anything – am sure for most airlines it works like an op-up so the ticket doesn’t change.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I’m using the bid for upgrade system. The ticket rules do apply from when I bought it, unless the booking is reticketed in which case the new rules apply. Just trying to avoid doing anything which inadvertently triggers a reticket. It would be odd if an upgrade on one leg meant you lost benefits on the other legs, though. I tried asking Etihad via their human messaging services but that didn’t work.
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