Carnival flight ease, just Economy tickets?

[kangforpres]

Hi- Just booked my first Carnival cruise with an incredibly VIFP casino offer. Now I need Premium Economy airfare to Brisbane, AU. When I use the flight search engine Economy is the only class option. When I look for HAL cruise I get choices for all classes; Economy, Premium Economy. Business and First. It's the same search engine since it's all under the CCL umbrella.

 

Thanks, 

 

Paul

[nwcruiselover]

Carnival’s Fly2Fun program only offers economy fares.  Some people have reported that they have been able to upgrade on the airline’s website after booking with Fly2Fun.  I wasn’t able to do that. YRMV.

[BlerkOne]

Not the same search engine and only economy class. Maybe the airline will let you upgrade, maybe not, but Carnival isn't in the loop for that.

[klfrodo]

All cruise line airline tickets are consolidator tickets.

They negotiate these tickets a couple of years in advance. These tickets are then put into buckets.

These buckets may have 50 Premium, 200 economy. As people are issued tickets, the buckets empty until they run out. Then,, that's it. If it's down to 2 left in Premium, but someone wants 3, it will show as no availability.

 

More can be learned about how cruise line air works from this thread in the Cruise Air section of this board.

 

 

[Eli_6]

I don't do Fly2Fun on long-haul flights for this exact reason: You can only book economy.