I don't offer legal opinions on Flyertalk (or any other forum for that matter). My personal (i.e. non-legal) opinion is that the e-mail is irrelevant. The LatinPass rules already define the term "segment." No LatinPass representative has the right to re-write those rules whenever he/she feels like it. Moreover, if a different representative had responded to this e-mail, Leroy11 probably would have received a different answer.

BTW, just to be safe, I am putting my two segments on TACA 514 (MIA-MGA and MGA-SAL) on separate tickets (at a slightly higher cost), because arguably a separate flight coupon would not be "required" if one were doing both segments on the same ticket.

My final ticket breakdown should look like this when purchased tomorrow:

MIA-MGA TACA (Nica) 3/11
$724.40

MGA-SAL TACA 3/11
SAL-GUA AVIATECA
GUA-SJO COPA 3/12
$561.80

SJO-BOG LACSA 3/12
BOG-UIO AVIANCA
UIO-IAH CO 3/13
IAH-DFW CO
$1384.05

Total: $2670.25 All Business Class

I arrive in DFW barely more than 48 hours after leaving MIA. I spend only two nights in Latin America for about $225. I earn all flights necessary for the 500k bonus, and I pick up more than 4000 status miles (and more than 7500 total miles) on CO. (And buying the tickets through trip.com gets me another 7500 CO miles.)

Not a bad way to spend a weekend.

[This message has been edited by UpgradeMe (edited 02-04-2000).]