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Old Aug 27, 2012 | 10:11 am
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Originally Posted by inpd
Now it gets even more weird. Got a call from United today, asking me why I bought a direct SFO-OGG flight one way and got an award OGG-SFO direct the other way and this is highly unusual.

I told them because there were no direct return SFO-OGG awards. Person who called reluctantly aggreed to combine the trips into one ticket.

Is there any benefits/problems to combining two one way tickets into a return trip?

What's highly unusual about it?

You're just paying cash when it makes sense and paying with miles when it makes sense.
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