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Hey everyone. Well, I'm new to this site, but have been nonreving for a few years now. Zed fares are the best! But, can be confusing sometimes.
There have been several posts (all very informative, but some statements contradict each other.
My airline states, as an example:
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An employee purchases a ZED ticket on American Airlines (AA) from DFW-HNL (Zone 5). The flight is full. The employee can then try to do one of the following:
Travel from DFW-LAX still on AA (reason: the routing zone is equal to or less than the zone of the ticket purchased).
Travel from IAH-HNL on CO (reason: we also have a ZED with CO and the zone is the same).
Travel on AA or any other ZED partner on a route whose distance is Zone 5 or less.
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Anybody disagrees with this? Especially the last statement? Some have said in other posts that city pairs must remain correct, and zeds would have to be reticketed for different city pairs regardless if the new flt was the same zone, and low/med/high zed rate.
So, on my upcoming flt from ICN to SYD (on Korean Air), I have a zed ticket which shows these city pairs, and properly states a farebasis of YIDZM8R2 (in other words, a Zed Medium Fare ticket with a zone 8 [mileage]).
With this ticket shouldn't I be able to use it on Korean Air (or even on UA or NW), from ICN-SFO, or ICN-LAX; since the zed rate (L,M,H), zoning, and agreements are same for all 3 airlines with my ICNSYD ticket? wow, that was a long sentence. haha
HELP! I'M CONFUSED http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e..._DIR#>/huh.gif
Mahalo for all your comments and clarifications!
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I was always told that travel has to be in the same direction so ICN-SFO would not be valid.
I have used several ZED tickets for routes that were different from the ticket.
Off the top of my head I can remember doing VS SFO-LHR on an AF SFO-CDG ticket and AA FCO-JFK on an AZ FCO-ORD ticket.
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The official ZED rules state that the ticket can be used for travel in the same zone, there's nothing about lower/shorter zones, but it's reasonable for an airline to accept a DFW-HNL for LAX-HNL. But there are caveats, primarily regarding taxes. In other words, if the taxes for the new routing are different that what was ticketed then the airline can refuse to accept the coupon. Otherwise, they're out whatever taxes should have been collected.
Most taxes are departure taxes, there are very few countries that apply an arrival tax. Unfortunately for you, the US is one of them. This means that you ICNSYD would not work for ICNLAX or ICNSFO because HA will not have collected the apprppriate US arrival taxes on the ticket.
Note too that regardless of what the ZED rules say or even what the member airlines tell their agents, as with many things it's ultimately in the agent's hands to decide.
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