Ticket 1 has a 6-day minimum stay. Ticket 2 has a 3-day minimum stay. AAA and CCC are different US cities, not co-terminal, less than 500 miles away (but a quick flight), and BBB is a trans-pacific city.
Does this violate the back-to-back rules? Thanks for any help!
channa
Mar 13, 07, 9:20 pm
From what it looks like, it appears to be end-on-end ticketing, not back-to-back.
Try pricing the whole thing on one ticket and see if it fares out to the same as Ticket 1 + Ticket 2.
If you can do that, play it safe and book it all on one ticket.
fti
Mar 14, 07, 9:08 am
I am in the middle of a similar ticketing scheme myself. Different N. American cities, as you mentioned. Actually mine is different from yours:
Mine is also on different airlines in the same alliance. That might help a bit but your tickets are definitely not "back to back".
BrettS
Mar 14, 07, 9:48 am
For what it's worth, I just completed a similar trip on US Air. I did the following:
ALB-LGB
LGB-LAS
LAS-LGB
LGB-ALB
This was booked as one itinerary and I had no problems with any of it.
HTH,
Brett
nako
Mar 14, 07, 10:10 am
For what it's worth, I just completed a similar trip on US Air. I did the following:
ALB-LGB
LGB-LAS
LAS-LGB
LGB-ALB
This was booked as one itinerary and I had no problems with any of it.
As already noted, this would constitute end-on-end ticketing, which is not usually disallowed by airlines, and not back-to-back. A back-to-back ticket, in your instance, would be a second ticket (LGB-ALB) purchased specifically to circumvent the minimum stay requirement on the first ticket.
Mike
BaldEmu
Mar 14, 07, 11:56 am
Thx for the help all! As it happens, I'd already ticketed them separately (if I'd decided one was not allowed would have upgraded it to a higher fare-class), but I did price out and hold a similar ticket with exactly the same destinations (different dates, but exact same fare-rules and structure) on united.bomb all on one ticket, so I'm confident it's legal. I have the print-out of the held reservation, so if something goes wrong can point to it in defense........
rjque
Mar 14, 07, 4:37 pm
Hi all - I'd appreciate some help. I'm considering tickets on UA which are:
Ticket 1 has a 6-day minimum stay. Ticket 2 has a 3-day minimum stay. AAA and CCC are different US cities, not co-terminal, less than 500 miles away (but a quick flight), and BBB is a trans-pacific city.
Does this violate the back-to-back rules? Thanks for any help!
I think that's nesting, not back-to-back ticketing. Whether it violates the rules of the ticket is beyond me. What airline?
nako
Mar 17, 07, 1:12 pm
What airline?
UA, as noted in the original post.
Mike
mecabq
Mar 17, 07, 5:44 pm
This shouldn't violate any rules. It might violate rules if AAA and CCC are the same city.