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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 7:13 pm
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nesting trips / reservations
In the UA and Mileage run forums they call it nesting, (1 trip within another)
Best not to link your SM number to the reservations until after the flights
- call and get credit separately, but then you may not get good seats or upgrades.
Alternately see if you can do it on 2 airlines, that is never a problem.

Originally Posted by apados
This may be something I should know, but for the life of me can't remember.. Also, I am in no way trying to break the rules, just trying to know what I should do when booking.

I have 3 back to back ( 6 M -F) trips coming up before the end of the year starting in a little over a week. Basically I'm flying to the same place on two consecutive weeks.

While I do get travel reimbursed, I try to keep costs for clients as low as possible. As such, i was wondering if its "legal" to basically book a R/T itin. for Monday on week 1(Point 1 to Point 2) and Friday on week 2 (Point 2 to Point 1)and then another R/T itin. for Friday on Week 1 (Point 2 to Point 1) and Monday on week 2 (Point 1 to Point 2).

I don't even know if its cheaper to do it this way, but was wondering if all you wise FT'ers out there knew what the rules were on something like this?

I am not planning to "ditch" any legs. I will definitely need to fly all of them (I like to get home...)..

Is there a name for this kind of booking?
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