Originally Posted by
SirJman
I was booked YOW-DTW-LAN last week. I was supposed to be flying from YOW at 6am Saturday morning, but due to the weather waiver they booked me on YOW-DTW 4pm on Friday. I requested that I not fly the DTW-LAN, so the CSR didn't rebook me on it, no problems.
I still had to fly LAN-DTW-YOW for the return though
I think this is a different situation though. Because of weather you were choosing to change your ininerary to insure you arrived in LAN.
I am presuming that the FNT-DTW-LAX fare was much cheaper than the direct DTW-LAX fare and that is what the airlines want to prevent. The reasons that airline do this is to prevent travelers from intentionally booking lower fares from the connector cities, and then just flying from the hub.
FNT has traditionally been a lower fare city then others in Michigan. DTW being the hub traditionally has higher fares.