herman

Are there any travel web sites that permit searching and booking flights in premium economy or business classes? Most, such as Expedia, seem to adress only economy class.

mrwunrfl

www.travelocity.com does. Click on the "More search options" link and you will see an option to show class and fare type options.

Airline websites provide the option, usually on a "more options" page. aa.com allows selection of restricted or unrestricted biz classes. united.com does too.

kybourbon

Most travel sites will let you search for business class. Usually you will have to click on more flight options, one way flights, multi flights, etc. first and on the next screen you will usually be able to switch from economy to business. That's the way Expedia's site works.

Underhill

On most of the travel sites there's something like "more options." If you click on that you can specify the flight class, hotel stars, and so on.

rkkwan

Like others have said, C class is easy to search. But PE is usually only available directly from the airline.

Gardyloo

www.expedia.co.uk offers premium economy as part of its search engine. Returns both VS and BA on JFK-LHR routes, for example.

Jed

Which airlines offer PE seats?

So far, as I can determine, they are Virgin, British Air, United, Thai. Any others?

BTW, thanks Gardyloo, for the expedia uk tip.

Gardyloo

British Air<i>ways,</i> VS, UA, TG, SQ, SK and a couple more Asian mainline carriers. See http://www.airlinequality.com/Product/seat_intro.htm

rkkwan

Gardyloo - Thanks for the link. Unfortuantely, that UK site isn't very helpful in booking other airlines' PE. I tried EWR-SIN or AMS-TPE, and it didn't show any results.

Anyways, PE products are often on selected routes only, and the quality of them differ too. There's really no &quot;standard&quot; for it other than being somewhere between coach and business. That's a very wide definition.

For example, UA's &quot;Economy +&quot; is nothing except 3-4 inches more legroom. Or take Air New Zealand - the newest entry in this field. They have the same 10-abreast seating in their PE as coach. More pitch, definitely. More recline, most likely. But definitely not wider.

Gardyloo

rkkwan - I thought it usually does, but today it seems buggy. Regardless, lack of PE coverage is a major flaw in the booking engines' design.

Baltorep

In booking Singapore Executive Economy you have to fly the non-stop EWR or LAX. Those two flights only offer Exec Econ and Business. So when checking fares if you price economy you are getting Exec Econ (EWR,LAX-SIN). However any conneting flights out of SIN. will be regular coach

ET

The very best site I have found for searching business class (or economy class) fares is Kayak.com. It searches all airlines offering business class between any two destinations. But they don't offer PE search engine.

Underhill

On the Orbitz site, you can click on &quot;options&quot; and change the flight class.

jbee

BMI also offers PE service: flybmi.com

rkkwan

Looking at bmi's seatplan, it looks like their &quot;PE&quot; is like UA's E+. Same seat as coach, same 2-4-2 configuration, but a lot more legroon (38&quot; vs 32&quot.