Handling "Basic Economy" flight fares with hidden a-la-carte fees

[Neil McGovern]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 03:33:35PM -0800, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
>  I'm not sure how to solve this problem.  For the moment, the advice is "be
> on the lookout for this and when in doubt, just ask for a flight cost
> exception", but I'd love if folks have ideas on how we can solve this
> problem more formally. I guess my first question is whether folks have found
> a search tool that allows excluding of these Basic Economy fares?

For info, at GNOME (who uses the Conservancy travel policy with the
serial number filed off) we have a "basic economy fairs don't count".
Using Hipmunk it's certainly possible to exclude these fairs.

We are also keeping a list of long-hall carriers which we consider to be
basic economy.

Neil