Availability/pricing searches
Ugh...I'm so frustrated! I'm trying to do this in Sabre but I just cannot find all the filters I need that I use in Apollo! I know what I need from searching on Apollo, but I thought I'd try the same search from scratch in Sabre, and I cannot get the same results!
Trying to do 17JUN DEN-SCQ and 28JUN SCQ-DEN - need premium economy and need to arrive SCQ by 7PM. I found the perfect itinerary, which is the first one below, and then used this format to check for others:
FS//ROI0400/A4/[]W
I don't want an overnight option, thus the ROI limited to 4 hours, and it can't arrive late so used the A to limit arrival time (otherwise it gives me via LHR arriving 9:05PM). I can't figure out how to add those same filters to a Sabre search. Anyone know?
PRICING OPTION 1
LOWER FARE AVAILABLE TOTAL AMOUNT 6355.62USD
ADT TAX INCLUDED
1 AA 1313 H 17JUN DEN PHL 1206P 550P TU 738 OHX4C7P5 E*
2 AA 740 P 17JUN PHL MAD 830P 935A+ TU 788 OHX4C7P5 E*
3 ¤AA 8806 H 18JUN MAD SCQ 1150A 105P WE CRJ OHX4C7P5 E*
4 ¤IB 1048 V 28JUN SCQ MAD 920A 1035A SA CRK VHW4C0J5 E*
5 AA 749 W 28JUN MAD CLT 100P 350P SA 772 VHW4C0J5 E*
6 AA 1529 Y 28JUN CLT DEN 600P 732P SA 321 VHW4C0J5 E*
Sabre gives me a fare of $3948.81 per person on the above itinerary, but it will only give me Y-class for all legs except W-class PHL-MAD. I can't get it to price in premium economy round trip.
Apollo also gives me this option below, which prices a bit less, I can't get Sabre to give me this pricing at all. I don't want this anyway - too tight of a layover at ORD.
or this:
PRICING OPTION 2 TOTAL AMOUNT 6001.62USD
ADT TAX INCLUDED
1 ¤IB 4013 H 17JUN DEN ORD 1211P 345P TU 738 NHX4C0P5 E*
2 IB 342 T 17JUN ORD MAD 430P 755A+ TU 330 NHX4C0P5 E*
3 ¤IB 1135 K 18JUN MAD SCQ 1150A 105P WE CRK NHX4C0P5 E*
4 ¤IB 1136 K 28JUN SCQ MAD 145P 300P SA CRK NHW4C0P5 E*
5 ¤IB 4230 T 28JUN MAD ORD 510P 645P SA 787 NHW4C0P5 E*
6 ¤IB 4195 H 28JUN ORD DEN 815P 959P SA 738 NHW4C0P5 E*
Can anyone help me? Should I just contact Sabre Central?
Thanks, Jake. I still think there is a problem here due to the availability on the MAD-SCQ leg. I ended up getting this round trip for $2887 pp in premium economy in Apollo. I realize in your example there isn't T-class available on the outbound, so your pricing is W-Class, but regardless, it NEVER came CLOSE to pricing the same as Apollo, even when T-class was still available. I don't know why we can only get Y-class on the MAD-SCQ leg, when it's wide open in Apollo. And the searching for the fares is so much more tedious as well...and I don't think that's just a factor of skill. I just feel so discouraged that we are going to be losing the quality of service we've been able to provide our clients with this switch. Sabre does not seem more robust as we've been told it is.