SDC question - overnight flights/connections
Nov 26, 2015, 12:33 pm
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SDC question - overnight flights/connections
A bit of a grey area perhaps...
Looking at booking a flight XXX-SEA-XXX on a Tuesday, where the first segment leaves late evening around 11pm, and arrives in SEA at around 2am on Wednesday, with the next connecting flight leaving at 9am Wednesday on to the destination.
If I were to SDC, then per the rules, MVPG can SDC starting at 10pm the day before the confirmed flight (Monday).
As it's booked as a continuous through ticket, and not as separate point to point, how does AS treat the connecting flight?
I may be finished early and could take an earlier flight, so I am hoping I'd be able to SDC the entire married segments/journey on the Monday night at the 10pm window onto an earlier flight on Tuesday arriving final destination late on Tuesday night. But I'm concerned that AS system may see the connecting flight as being the next day (even though it's a continuous connection), and thus won't allow the SDC.
Any thoughts or experience with this?
Looking at booking a flight XXX-SEA-XXX on a Tuesday, where the first segment leaves late evening around 11pm, and arrives in SEA at around 2am on Wednesday, with the next connecting flight leaving at 9am Wednesday on to the destination.
If I were to SDC, then per the rules, MVPG can SDC starting at 10pm the day before the confirmed flight (Monday).
As it's booked as a continuous through ticket, and not as separate point to point, how does AS treat the connecting flight?
I may be finished early and could take an earlier flight, so I am hoping I'd be able to SDC the entire married segments/journey on the Monday night at the 10pm window onto an earlier flight on Tuesday arriving final destination late on Tuesday night. But I'm concerned that AS system may see the connecting flight as being the next day (even though it's a continuous connection), and thus won't allow the SDC.
Any thoughts or experience with this?
Nov 26, 2015, 12:50 pm
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I think it will only allow the flight the first day to be changed.
I think it will only allow the flight the first day to be changed.
Nov 26, 2015, 1:04 pm
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Nov 26, 2015, 1:18 pm
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I am not totally clear on what you are trying to do, however I do know that if you try to SDC and any connection is over 4 hours the systems views it as invalid and it wont let the SDC go throught.
Nov 26, 2015, 4:29 pm
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Hi -
Per the rules, the flight the next day can be changed to any flight THAT DAY. If I read it right, that means any flight on Wednesday.
That said, I was able (once) to move from an AM shuttle flight to the last shuttle flight the night before. I was connecting from an AS flight. I had to go to the customer service center.
It probably helped that the plane I was connecting to was empty.
And it probably helped that I was G75.
Per the rules, the flight the next day can be changed to any flight THAT DAY. If I read it right, that means any flight on Wednesday.
That said, I was able (once) to move from an AM shuttle flight to the last shuttle flight the night before. I was connecting from an AS flight. I had to go to the customer service center.
It probably helped that the plane I was connecting to was empty.
And it probably helped that I was G75.
Nov 26, 2015, 6:55 pm
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It won't be allowed online because it strictly it doesn't follow the rules, however if you call in and ask about your reservation and they can clarify if it should be allowed.
I had to do this once and they put a note on the file saying it should be allowed when I call in the day before at 10 pm
(I'm MVPG... not sure if status helped with that....)
I had to do this once and they put a note on the file saying it should be allowed when I call in the day before at 10 pm
(I'm MVPG... not sure if status helped with that....)
Nov 26, 2015, 7:32 pm
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It won't be allowed online because it strictly it doesn't follow the rules, however if you call in and ask about your reservation and they can clarify if it should be allowed.
I had to do this once and they put a note on the file saying it should be allowed when I call in the day before at 10 pm (I'm MVPG... not sure if status helped with that....)
I had to do this once and they put a note on the file saying it should be allowed when I call in the day before at 10 pm
(I'm MVPG... not sure if status helped with that....)
Nov 26, 2015, 10:49 pm
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I think OP's idea is to complete the entire trip on Tues evening rather than actually arriving at destination on Wed due to the ~7hr SEA layover ... I have to believe that SDC logic will see a continuous trip originating at 11pm Tue, and will therefore allow a change to any valid connections, departing earlier that day, when OP makes the SDC request after 11pm on Mon