Originally Posted by
Jalinth
What are your tickets - IST-FRA RT and FRA-KIX RT? You are nesting your tickets (the KIX route is within the IST-FRA part) here, so risk LH cancelling your KIX route. They might pick it up at the start and deny you boarding for the FRA-KIX part, or you might find that your return from KIX is suddenly gone or repriced. Nesting is generally prohibited by most airlines and they tend to pick up on it.
My ticket is likely going to be (not booked yet) YUL-FRA-KIX, open jaw NRT-YYZ-YUL, and local o/w flights around Europe on LCCs, but the IST-FRA flight would likely have to be LH because friends are telling me that I pretty much have to use IST, and not SOW (the 'regional' airport), to fly out of Istanbul due to the inconvenient location of SOW (and all LCCs operate from there).
Originally Posted by
Jalinth
If you absolutely need to nest return tickets, you need to avoid using the same airline at a minimum, or same alliance at maximum (or don't provide your FF number on one of the RT to avoid being flagged). So use TK for the IST-FRA (or some other airline) but you'll have to collect your baggage and check in separately to LH since you don't want your record to show a nested ticket.
Got you. Thanks for the breakdown. I think I can probably avoid nesting, or at least find a different airline - but good to know to what lengths they would go
-pN