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Old Sep 24, 2012 | 12:27 pm
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Originally Posted by transportprof
...It's on a complex itinerary where a very helpful phone agent helped me to apply one RPU to two flights HNL-SFO and SFO-JFK. Even though we're overnighting at SFO, he claimed that the cnx time (about 14 hours) was within the window to count this as a connection, hence one RPU doing double duty. ...
Don't know what the schedule change acceptence issue is, but the RPU usage does not sound "legal."

The rule on domestic is 4 hours or the next available flight. The 14 hour gap does not sound like the next available flight. So, yes your single RPU usage is at risk.
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