Originally Posted by
sbm12
It is actually NOT a violation of the rules to have the open jaw at a stopover point. The rules are vague and that's probably not what UA means for them to be, but the way they are currently written in the system it is absolutely permitted. I just redeemed JFK-FRA-HAJ//HAM-CPH-AAR//AAL-CPH-LHR-EWR as a single return trip. The systems will balk at it but an agent actually reading the rules should be able to issue it.
I suspect that one of HAJ-HAM and AAR-AAL is being coded as an embedded surface sector and not treated like an open jaw, which should be either at the origin or destination (or both in the case of UA rules). I know with DL, that's how you have to convince the agent to code things to get it to price correctly. Of course, this is really problematic with DL's four segment per direction limit.