Originally Posted by
Mike Jacoubowsky
So, perhaps the dumbest of dumb questions, how do you know if two reservations are on the same PNR, or different? Presumably multiple passengers with the same confirmation number are on the same PNR. Yet I'd thought I'd heard that PNRs could be joined, but doing that would change someone's confirmation number? Guess I should do a search on PNR here and find out. You'd think I'd know more after all these years.

How to tell if you have one PNR? You have only one confirmation number. So if the there are seperate confirmation numbers you do not have one PNR.
PNRs cannot be joined, merged, .... they can be crossreferenced in the comment section which an agent can see if they look. But as
mahasamatman mentions in irrops re-booking (done by computer) that will be no help.