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Jun 28, 2011 | 7:09 pm

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Originally Posted by jackal

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Originally Posted by PDXPremier

So if the milkrun is booked as separate segments (with potentially different seat assignments), do you actually get off the plane at each stop and have your boarding pass scanned since they would presumably all be "connection" cities?

It's not booked as separate segments. Technically, in the computer, it's booked as a single segment with split seat assignments. While relatively complicated, the GAs who handle the milkruns are fairly used to dealing with it.

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Originally Posted by steadyASshegoes

Could you get off the plane and SDC to a later flight?

Doubt it. You'd probably crash Sabre by trying to do that.

In all seriousness, I'm not sure how that would be handled. Technically, you can't SDC to a later flight, because that would be a routing change (adding a stop to a direct flight). The computer would probably forbid it as a straight SDC, but a creative GA (which I gather there are many of in Southeast Alaska) could probably get around it...

...If there is another flight

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