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Within one class of air tickets (business or economy) there is a division according to the type of fare. At the same time, passengers of the same class, regardless of the type of fare, receive exactly the same set of services and can take any seat in the economy class cabin. So what do those Y, B, M, H, Q, K, L, U, T on the ticket mean?

Strictly speaking, economy class fares differ in the terms of return and exchange of the ticket, the size of the discount for children, and the validity of the ticket. The conditions for applying the fare determine the amount of the penalty for returning the ticket, the specifics of calculations when changing different sections of the route, the possibility of making changes to the route, for example, changing the name of the passenger or the date of departure.

Fares are indicated on the tickets by letter codes. But the designation system and fare conditions differ depending on the airline.

In general, three main tariff groups can be distinguished:

In addition, some tariffs may have additional restrictions. Such as, for example, the ability to choose a seat in the cabin at check-in. And lastly, for different tariffs, a different amount of bonus miles is accrued.

The conditions on board will be the same regardless of the chosen fare, and the difference in price may differ by 7 times. So the conclusion is simple: if you are sure that your plans will not change, take the cheapest tariff.

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At the airport / on board the aircraft, the dimensions of hand luggage are checked by the measuring devices of the Airline. Hand luggage must be freely (without the use of force - under its own weight) placed in these measuring devices.

¹ Above the norm and at no additional charge, the passenger has the right to carry the following items if they are with the passenger and not included in the luggage:

• A backpack with dimensions of no more than 40 × 30 × 20 cm, weighing no more than 5 kg, or a handbag, or a briefcase with things enclosed in a backpack, or a bag, or a briefcase;
• Bouquet of flowers;
• outerwear;
• Umbrella cane;
• Baby food for the child during the flight;
• Suit in a suitcase;
• A device for carrying a child (cradle, restraint systems (devices) for children under two years of age, a baby carriage and other devices) when transporting a child, which can be safely placed in the aircraft cabin on a shelf above the passenger seat or under the seat in front of the passenger seat ( dimensions no more than 65x40x20 cm);
• Medications, special dietary needs in the amount required for the duration of the flight;
• Crutches, canes, walkers, rollators, a folding wheelchair used by a passenger and having dimensions that allow them to be safely placed in the aircraft cabin on a shelf above the passenger seat or under the seat in front of the passenger seat;
• Goods purchased at duty-free shops at the airport, packed in one sealed (sealed) plastic bag, weighing no more than 3 kg.

² Skiing, snowboarding, surfing and diving equipment, hockey equipment, bicycles, scooters, golf equipment, fishing equipment. Exception: direct flights between Moscow and the cities of Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent, Fergana, Dushanbe, as well as transfer routes from / to these cities when traveling through the Vnukovo airport in Moscow

³ If there are no available seats at the applicable rate, a surcharge will be charged up to the available rate

4 1 flight segment is a flight from one city to another.
If you are flying from Kaliningrad to Sochi with a transfer in Moscow, then these are 2 flight segments.

5 Baggage allowance, regardless of the fare: hand luggage (40x30x20cm) 5 kg, as well as baby food, a cradle and a stroller (according to FAP standards).

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If you choose not to fly

Notify Utair of this no later than 40 minutes before the flight departure. If you do not come to the flight and do not warn about it in advance, then the seats along the entire route will be canceled automatically.

You will not be able to board the aircraft at the transfer point or on the return route. If you want to stop the flight or fly only from the transfer point or only on the return route - be sure to call Utair.

Notification

Carriage and other services provided by the carrier are subject to the conditions of carriage, which are incorporated in this document by reference to them. These conditions can be obtained from the issuing carrier or the carrier named on the ticket. Passengers whose carriage has a final destination or stopover in a country other than the country of departure is advised that the entire carriage, including any part of it, located within the territory of the country may be subject to the provisions of international agreements known as the Montreal Convention or its predecessor, the Warsaw Convention. convention, including its amendments (Warsaw system). For such passengers, the applicable agreement (including special conditions of carriage resulting from applicable fares) governs and may limit the liability of the carrier. For more information, please contact the carrier.

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AIR TICKETS - AIR TICKETS CLASSES
The booking class is a letter designation of the quota of seats on the flight corresponding to a particular fare. The ticket class determines the service that you will receive during the flight. If the regular dinner included in the ticket price is offered to everyone regardless of class, then free alcoholic drinks will be provided only to first class passengers. However, if you are flying abroad, and especially to Europe, then it is hardly worth overpaying - even in the economy class of international flights, there is quite high-quality service and comfortable conditions that meet European standards. Moreover, you will have to overpay a lot - the prices for air tickets of the same company for the same flight can differ by half (if you compare the first and economy class). Under each fare, the airline has set a booking class N, V, R, M, K, H, B, Y and quotas of seats for sale in this subclass. Moreover, the cheaper the fare, the smaller the quota of seats. It is clear that if all the seats are sold at the minimum fare, then the flight is unlikely to justify itself economically. Therefore, cheap tickets are always scarce. The airline determines in advance (purely technically) how many seats in a given price quota it will sell on a flight. Of course, the division into quotas varies on each flight in each season.
First grade
R R - supersonic class
F R - premium first class
P F - first class
A A - discounted first class
Business Class
And J - premium business class
B C - business class
D D - discount business class
Ш Z - discounted business class
Ы I - discounted business class
Economy class
Yu W - economic premium
C S - economy class
E Y - economy class
F B - economic discount
C H - discounted economy
K K - cheap class (economy with a discount)
L L - cheap class with a discount (economic class with a discount)
M M - tourist class (economy with a discount)
H N - economic discount
I Q - economic discount
T T - economic discount
В V - economic discount (youth class)
X X - economic discount
Е E - shuttle tariff; redundancy is not allowed; Seats are confirmed at check-in
U U - shuttle tariff; no reservation required; places guaranteed
G G - group class - redundancy under certain conditions
O O - economic discount
The level of service in class C may be the same or higher than in class Y, but lower than in class J.
The level of service in class M can be the same or lower than in class Y.
When selling with seat numbers, only 16 subclasses can be used, when selling without seat numbers, 26 subclasses can be used.

On November 1, 2016, Aeroflot launched new tariffs, the main distinguishing feature of which is that now all three groups are “Budget”, “Optimum” and “Maximum” (until 01/29/2019 it was called Premium)- will always be available, while earlier, as cheap fares disappeared from the sale of tickets, only expensive ones remained, in which the passenger paid for services he did not need. Roughly speaking, if you want to suddenly fly from Moscow to St. Petersburg on Friday evening - please, 20 thousand rubles for the "Maximum" fare. Yes, the fare is fully refundable and you can take two suitcases even if you don't need it. Now you can still fly to St. Petersburg at the last moment for 20 thousand rubles, but ... at the Budget tariff, without overpaying for services you do not need. "Optimum" in the same direction at the last moment will cost 21,000 rubles, and "Maximum" - 22,500 rubles.

That is, there was no price reduction in this case, and if you buy a ticket at the last moment, it will still be expensive, and even more expensive than before; saving due to the lack of overpayment for unnecessary services will not really work.

It is quite another thing to buy in advance return rates. If now, for example, the cheapest "Maximum" costs 15,000 rubles one way, then from November 1 it will cost only 4,000 rubles. This will make tariffs with additional services included much more affordable. Moreover, a life hack appears: you can collect return tickets for any dates six months in advance, and then calmly return them before departure (but not after departure, as before), if your plans have changed.

It is worth noting that the cheapest "Maximum" now costs even less than the cheapest "Optimum" used to cost - on the example of MOW-LED it is 4000 rubles instead of 5000, and, for example, in New York now "Optimum" costs from 360 euros for a round-trip ticket, and the new "Maximum" will cost 290. This is important when it comes to the upgrade for miles - it used to be possible from "Optimum" and "Maximum", now only from "Maximum", and it's done because "Optimum" has become much cheaper, and "Maximum" too - that is, the entrance threshold for a mile upgrade will decrease. But there is one caveat: this is good only for those who consciously buy “Maximum” for their money, so that later they can upgrade to “Comfort” or “Business” for miles - this is much more profitable than buying the corresponding tickets in the first place. However, now, of course, mainly "Budget" will be taken for travel at public expense, since it will always be available and will always be cheaper than "Optimum" and "Maximum". So an increase in class will become a privilege for those who travel at their own expense.

You can study the tariffs and prices in more detail in the attached tables. The numbers indicate prices in rubles for domestic flights and in euros for international flights, excluding taxes and fees. The letter R after the number means a round-trip fare, the absence of a letter means a one-way fare. The next columns are the fare code (you see it, for example, in the itinerary receipt) and the booking class. In the old fares, tickets are sold in order (in ascending order), in the new fares, three options will be open at once: first N/N+/N++, then E/E+/E++ and so on up to Y/Y+/Y++. In our example, it can be seen that the difference between “Budget” and “Optimum” in one direction is 1000 rubles, between “Optimum” and “Maximum” - 1500 on domestic flights, and on international flights - 35 and 60 euros, respectively. On round-trip tickets, the difference is twice as much.

Old tariffs Moscow-St. Petersburg (MOW-LED):

New tariffs Moscow-St. Petersburg (MOW-LED):

Old rates Moscow-New York (MOW-NYC):

New Moscow-New York (MOW-NYC) fares:

For any experienced traveler, one glance at their ticket is enough to get comprehensive information about the flight, booking, prices and rules that apply to a particular class. However, if you do not travel very often, the abundance of fares can scare and make you panic. And this is definitely not worth doing. It is better to deal once and for all with the possible classes and their rules, prices. Deciphering Aeroflot tariffs is not such a difficult task if you know the algorithm.

Please note that it doesn’t matter where you buy a ticket (at the box office, on the website or on the agent’s resource), the main thing here is to familiarize yourself with the rules for providing the fare. They assert your rights and the rights of the carrier. Usually they cover not only the comfort of the place, but also the orders for return, boarding, and so on. All this is very important if you need to exchange or return tickets. Cheap services are not the most correct selection criterion. It should be understood that the low price is due to only one thing - a huge number of restrictions. The cheaper the ticket, the more of them and the more inconvenient it will be in critical situations. The following fare classes currently exist:

1. Promo economy.
2. Economy budget.
3. Optimum economy.
4. Economy status.
5. Optimal business.
6. Business status.

For each of them, a letter encoding is also applied. It is worth understanding the most popular classes in more detail.

Promo economy is considered the simplest and cheapest fare from Aeroflot. But there are a large number of restrictions and prohibitions. It is difficult to call it convenient. Aeroflot calls this booking class suitable for students and budget travelers. An open date for the return flight is, of course, prohibited here. It is also worth knowing that the date of the return flight here, in principle, cannot be any. You need to be at your destination until the next Sunday, otherwise you simply won’t fly at such a fare.

However, if the flight is carried out between Russian cities, then these rules do not apply. You can stay at the destination for no more than a month for any countries and cities.
Aeroflot has its own bonus accrual system. When there are a lot of them, you can get a tangible discount or even a free ticket. For each flight and class, their own amounts are assigned. In the case of an economy promo, this is 25% of miles.

Transit conditions and transfers are prohibited in such a tariff, so you won’t be able to see any country along the way. It is also not allowed to carry out upgrades to the class of service when landing.
There are also return conditions:

• ticket refund if more than a day is left before departure - with a fee of 25 euros;
• less than a day in advance - a fine of 25% of the ticket price and a total fee of 25 euros;
• It is not possible to return a ticket right before departure.

If you are flying in Russia, you can change some flight conditions with a fine of 2000-4000 rubles, but for flights abroad it is 100 euros. For children under 2 years old, it provides a 90% discount (in Russia, flights are generally free), but if the child is more than two years old, then there are no discounts at all. The exception is Russian flights around the country for children aged 2 to 12, then a 25% discount is applied.

Economy class optimum Aeroflot: what is it?

This tariff is quite in demand, because, on the one hand, it is inexpensive, and on the other hand, there are an order of magnitude fewer restrictions. Aeroflot sells such an economy fare most often. Here also, as in the previous case, an open date of departure in the opposite direction is not allowed. However, there are no restrictions on the minimum stay at the destination. You can stay in the country for a maximum of six months.

Bonus miles here are a solid 150%. Transit transfers are also allowed here. You can upgrade the class of service, but here each flight has its own surcharge system. In the event of a return, the following rules apply:

• more than a day - a fee of 25 euros, for Russian destinations - 900 rubles;
• less than a day - 25% of the total amount;
• landing is prohibited.

You can change the conditions of the flight by paying a fine of 50 euros. But if you fly to America, then the amount will be 100 euros. For children under 2 years old, the same discounts apply as in the case of the previous tariffs, but if a child from 2 years old travels alone, unaccompanied, then he is given 0%, and with adults - 25%.

Status-business: what are the conditions for this tariff?

There are Aeroflot ticket classes that are intended for more presentable customers who agree to pay many times more for a flight. But there are also many advantages to such tariffs. An open return date is allowed here. Bonus miles are 200%.

You can stay at the point at the destination for up to a year, there is no minimum period. Transit transfers are also allowed. The ticket refund policy is as follows:

• more than a day - a full refund, without any fines and surcharges;
• less than a day - also a full refund;
• upon registration - a full refund.

You can change the flight conditions without additional payment. Children under 2 years old travel with a 90% discount (free of charge in Russia). From the age of two, a 50% discount for adult accompaniment is provided.
It is noteworthy that similar conditions are provided within the status-economy tariff. Here, almost all conditions are duplicated, including an open return date, a year of stay at the destination, and 200% bonus miles.

The return conditions are also duplicated here. There is no need to pay extra for any types of returned tickets, even if you decide to cancel the flight right before departure. What is changing here? In fact, only the quality of service on the flight, the convenience of the place, the serving of drinks and meals.

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