Originally Posted by
jojo87
I need to fly 2 R/Ts from EWR-IND, each overnight. Itinerary as follows:
EWR-IND 7/13 and return on 7/14
EWR-IND 7/24 and return on 7/24
I was looking to buy nested roundtrips to ease the fare pain. The slight twist is that I'll be traveling with my daughter on the bookended segments, and flying solo on the middle segments.
What are the chances that CO will flag this as a violation of the CoC?
If flying alone on all segments, this is classic nesting, which airlines would say violates the nesting rules, and
might go after.
Yet... this looks like a classic "parent dropping off minor for holiday week". If there's two pax on the outside, and one pax on the inside, I can wrap my mind around this not breaking any rules, especially if the additional pax is a minor,
as you'd presumably absolutely want them on the same PNR. If the extra pax
had to be on the same PNR during transport, and CO gave you grief about "technical" nesting... you'd have to buy
six one-way tickets, or maybe 2x outside and 2x inside one-ways.
If you want to get creative, can you buy the outside tickets on CO, and the inside tickets on UA using the CO codeshare (
and apply each PNR to the respective operating carrier's FF program, so the mileage history wouldn't show the nesting)?
And if worse gets to worse, could you do the insides on a DL direct to JFK?