Boy Did I get burned! I had a OW itin set up and I thought I was so clever. Originate in Canada save $$$'s. Fly to MSY (New Orleans) for a convention. FLy to MKE (my home) stay a week or so and then continue on to LHR and the rest of the world. Called BA to check on something and found out I got charged a huge surcharge and downgraded within the U.S.

Apparently the new rules in the N.A. is that I am allowed only one stop at the gateway. which in my case is ORD. So they charge me to fly to MSY and back to MKE and then on to ORD to make my connection. Does this sound right? I have to fly through ORD to get to MSY no other choice. At the very least I thought I could stop in ORD on my outbound in addition to the stop in MSY.

Any OW experts have any advice or am I just stuck?