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What is an airfare?
Let’s start with something easy. What is an airfare? The airfare is the price that you pay to travel on an airplane. The fare may be one-way or round-trip. The price consists of a base fare plus the regular taxes and fees. So what are the main types of airfares?
There are two main types of fares, published airfares and unpublished airfares. Let’s dive in for a closer look.
Published airfares
Anyone can buy a published airfare. You can buy them from anywhere – airlines, travel agencies, or online booking sites.
Types of Airfares - Published Airfares
Types of airfares
Below are a few different types of published airfares. They all have their own special rules, restrictions, and availabilities. Airlines will fill airplane seats with a variety of these fare types.
Apex fare
These fares are discounted international fares. Apex fares are usually purchased in advance – this is called advance purchase. For example, you need to buy the ticket at least 7, 14, or 21 days before departure. They will have some other restrictions attached, such as being non-refundable and fees for any changes.
Discount fare
These fares are cheaper as they are usually available for a limited time, like a ‘seat sale’. Discount fares can have a long list of limitations like the:
– Travel dates – e.g. July – August only
– Minimum stay – e.g. 2 nights
– Maximum stay – e.g. 3 months
– No refunds
Unrestricted, flexible, full fare, or walk-up fare
These are the most expensive types of airfares. This is because you can refund or change these tickets as necessary. They can also be purchased on the same day you travel. The pricing for these fares is used as the benchmark for the discounted fares. So, this is basically the regular price of the fare.
Joint fare
Joint fares are a result of more than one airline working together as partners to get you to your destination.
Through fare
Through fares can be combined with the above fare types and happen when you fly through a gateway city. Although you will be flying via a third city, you are only charged one fare from your departure to your destination.
Bereavement fare
Bereavement fares are last-minute fares that are available right up until the time of departure. Airlines offer them to family members for funerals, or in the case of imminent death. Although bereavement fares are usually discounted full fares, they may not always be the cheapest ticket. The discount is usually 50% of the full fare. You can only buy bereavement fares from the airline directly, over the phone or at the ticket counter. Apparently, in recent years many airlines have been cutting their bereavement fare options.
Open-jaw
An open jaw ticket is a return ticket, however, the departure and the destination are not the same each way. For example, you fly from New York to Rome, have a little road-trip around Europe, and fly back from Paris to New York. NY to Rome, Paris to NY.
There are three different types of open jaw flights:
1. Destination open-jaw – NY -> Rome, Paris -> NY
2. Origin open-jaw – NY -> Rome, Rome -> Boston
3. Double open-jaw – NY -> Rome, London -> Boston
Going to a different airport in the same city is not considered to be an open-jaw flight.
Multi-city
Multi-city flights are single tickets that have multiple stops. Like a Round the World ticket, but you don’t have to go that far! You can turn layovers into stopovers
(layovers are under 12 hours and stopovers are over 12 hours). Traveling this way allows you to visit many destinations and save on overall flight costs.
Booking open-jaw and multi-city flights online can be very expensive. The best way to book these types of flights is to use a travel agent. They are experts at piecing together these types of flights.
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