[QUOTE=teddybw;17954145]This is called end-on-end, which is totally fine.QUOTE]

I have no reason to think teddybw is wrong, and I'm sure hoping he is right. My take is: who knows? A ticket I was looking at last week certainly implied end-to-end fares were not permitted. I'm an intelligent, educated person, and I've read the fare rules to try to ensure that I don't break them. I reach the conclusion that there are too many ambigious points to be really sure. . . that is certainly true for any average person who just wants to buy a few airline tickets. Have crazy fare rules been litigated in a small claims courts to see how an airline would explain the rule jargon to a non-technical audience?

I actually don't have a problem with paying a higher air fare if that's what the rules dictate. It just bugs the heck out of me that the fare rules are not self-explanatory.