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May 15, 2009 | 1:52 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sbm12

That being said, using two different airlines is quite fine since you are following the CoC of each airline for the ticket you have with them.

Really? Sure, in practice you will not get caught, but back-to-back ticketing would seem to violate at least one airline's CoC:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beckles

This is back-to-back ticketing and is expressly forbidden in NW's Contract of Carriage.

Code:

USE OF COUPONS FROM TWO OR MORE TICKETS ISSUED AT ROUND
TRIP FARES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CIRCUMVENTING APPLICABLE
TARIFF RULES (SUCH AS ADVANCE PURCHASE/MINIMUM STAY
REQUIREMENT) IS NOT PERMITTED. NW AGENTS AND
AUTHORIZED TRAVEL AGENTS ARE PROHIBITED FROM ISSUING
TICKETS, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS "BACK TO BACK TICKETING",
WITH THE INTENT TO ABUSE AND/OR MISUSE RESTRICTED ROUND
TRIP FARES. AGENTS FOUND ISSUING SUCH TICKETS MAY BE LIABLE
FOR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FARE PAID AND THE FARE
FOR TRANSPORTATION USED. IN ADDITION, IN EXERCISE OF ITS
REASONABLE DISCRETION, NW MAY, TAKE SUCH ACTION IN RELATION
TO AN OFFENDING PASSENGER’S WORLDPERKS ACCOUNT, INCLUDING
TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP AND FORFEITURE OF ACCRUED MILES.
NW HAS THE RIGHT TO DENY TRANSPORTATION TO PASSENGERS FOUND
UTILIZING TICKETS IN THIS MANNER UNLESS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE FARE PAID AND THE FARE FOR TRANSPORTATION USED
IS COLLECTED.

Nowhere in this section does it say anything about being applicable only to NW tickets. Perhaps such an exception is specified elsewhere (I doubt it). Of course I did not read the entire CoC; nobody ever does (besides NW lawyers and really really bored people). Is this really a Contract?

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