New Discount Airfare Category Revolutionizes Coach, Business, and
First Class Travel
MONTEREY, Calif., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuesday
FirstClassFlyer.com, the premium online newsletter dedicated to
exposing the art of discount business class and first
class airfares and upgrading for the last 16 years, revealed a
new business class and first class "airfare category" that
should upend the way hundreds of thousands of travelers
currently think about booking flights, whether economy,
business class, or first class.
The new EasyUp fare, an economy class ticket with an "automatic
upgrade" (for a surcharge, of course), is going to make it much
easier for many travelers to get business and first class flights.
And much cheaper, too. Often for little more than coach seats in
various situations.
The new fares should have a radical effect on the way leisure
and business travelers think about loyalty program awards, and the
cost of loyalty, even though the new fares require a 60-day
advance purchase and 10-day minimum stay.
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Business class fares start at $1,222 round-trip including all taxes and
fees on Delta Air Lines for New
York to Dublin, for
example, and generally range from 50% to 70%+ off traditional
premium fares.
EasyUp Fare Departure Cities
They include Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas
City, Los Angeles,
New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San
Diego, San Jose,
San Francisco, Seattle, Washington and many smaller markets.
In fact, EasyUp fares were discovered on over 80% of the hundreds
of routes Mr. Bennett analyzed.
Introduced without any publicity by Delta Air Lines and largely
followed by American Airlines, the fare was discovered by First
Class Flyer founder Matthew Bennett
(aka Mr. Upgrade), America's leading expert on business
class and first class fares over the last 16 years.
In the special report, six bold predictions were made, including
one that has United Airlines and US Airways matching many of the
new business and first class fares, eventually.
First Class Flyer also predicts that the fare's rules,
restrictions, and costs are sure to change over time,
and details on the evolution of this new fare will be
posted in FirstClassFlyer.com's Newsroom on a regular
basis.
But the impact of the new EasyUp fares goes far beyond
that. "EasyUp is going to require an entirely new 'flight booking
mindset' on the part of the savvy traveler," says Bennett, who
refers to the special report as "A Flight Upgrade Mindset
Reset."
First Class Flyer's special report answers these vital
questions:
- Which routes offer the lowest discount business and first class
EasyUp fares?
- Why does EasyUps kill much of the traditional frequent flyer
program thinking?
- What are the EasyUp fare rules and fine print?
- What are the differences between American Airlines and Delta
Air Lines EasyUp fares?
- How do I find EasyUp fares?
- How should I use the frequent flyer miles I already have going
forward?
- What other airlines are likely to follow the Americans and
Delta lead?
- What other destinations are likely to be introduced beyond
Africa, Asia, and Europe?
About FirstClassFlyer.com
FirstClassFlyer.com has
published a premium monthly newsletter and daily alerts
dedicated to educating and inspiring everyone, from seasoned
business travelers to novice leisure travelers, on how to upgrade
their air travel experience -- often at, or for little more than,
the price of coach -- since August 1996. Numerous upgrade and
ticketing strategies that First Class Flyer developed over the last
16 years are used regularly today by millions of travelers, and are
frequently discussed on travel blogs and forums.
About Matthew
Bennett
Personal advisor to Academy Award Winners,
sports stars, and CEOs, Matthew Bennett has been tracking down
airfare deals since his days as a minor league pitcher for the
Kansas City Royals, when he helped his teammates book unpublished
fares. That eventually earned him the sobriquet "Mr. Upgrade" and
made him a popular guy in the clubhouse. Since then, Bennett has
become the leading authority on Business and First Class air
travel.
As Editor and Publisher of First Class Flyer since 1996, Bennett
has served more than 300,000 readers and corporate clients. He is
recognized worldwide as the "father" of upgrade architecture and is
consulted by publications including The New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Conde Nast Traveler, as
well as other media, among them CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and FOX News.
SOURCE First Class Flyer Inc.