<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FewMiles:
(potentially stupid question) For those travelling on crazy 30+ segment OWEs, can you just issue, say the first 15 segments, and leave the last as "open", and then after the first 8 are flown, you can book the next 8, such that you keep under the "system maximum" of 16 coupons at all times?
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See a couple of problems right off the bat-
1. You'd be charged a change fee everytime you modified the trip to add segments.
2. It would take some fancy routings in the initial ticket and each revision to fulfill the OWE rules, i.e. hit all the continents and get back to the origin.