airline tickets

Fare Shopping Made Simple

September 1, 2026

Most fare-shopping advice starts with the wrong suspicion. It treats comparison, routing experiments, and hidden-city tickets as loopholes that travelers discovered behind the airline's back. The more useful truth is that fare shopping grew out of airline pricing itself. Airlines created complex fares, restrictions, connecting itineraries, inventory classes, and channel-specific offers to sell seats at different prices. Travelers learned to read that structure. Involuntary Reroute, and I-Reroute.com, are the...

Fare Basis Codes: Decode Them to Find Better Deals in 2026

August 19, 2026

A fare basis code is a 1-to-8-character airline-specific alphanumeric identifier that combines a booking class with fragments describing advance purchase, seasonality, refundability, and routing rules. It matters because the same code can determine what you pay, which inventory bucket you access, and what happens when you change or cancel the ticket. The popular advice says to ignore the strange letters and numbers on your confirmation because the airline has...