YUPP Season

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Personally I prefer Feb/Mar & Sep/Oct

Miss the high seasons, and most weather events (I stress most)

The best thing is, both those time periods have events I need to travel to.

For example next month I will be doing SYD-AKL-LAX-DFW-CMH-ORD-MIA-MCO-MIA-ORD-CMH-DFW-LAX-LAS-LAX-BNE-SYD

WP retention in one trip (QF flights JASA, AA flights all YUPP's)

Last year I messed up and did CMH-JFK-MCO-JFK-CMH… what was I thinking, same price, and go via ORD & MIA… lol

September is usually West Coast based, but a mandatory weekend visit to Seattle is on the cards to visit friends, so F class via SFO or if from LAS via LAX (a quick 300 SC's return, and gets me to where I want)

For my Christmas trips I try and avoid ORD at all costs

 

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A lot of the information you posted from EF is double-Dutch to me but I think I've got your main point, that being the fares aren't doubling, just probably not yet available. I'll keep trying. I also probably need to look at a premium membership to EF and read up on some Flyertalk posts as to how understand the complex parts.

You have the gist -can't book a discount fare as there is no discount booking class being made available on a flight (yet).

Compare the D/I loadings for the flights on the different days - for the discounted fare you need I ≥ {Number of PAX}.

As the time moves on, these fares should become available for later dates, generally day by day.

 

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Success.

It seems the passing of one more day, as suggested, has resulted in the fare becoming available on 1 December. It's still high for 2 December which confirms the notion that it's too early for the particular fares to be loaded. Tomorrow, it would seem that the 2 December fares will become available.