Originally Posted by
mgcsinc
United.com will usually price out a legal non-stopover layover correctly.
Usually, but not always.
Originally Posted by
HKChicago
The multi-destination tool seems to just give me the same price I'd get if buying the ORD-AUS part separately (about $360 one way to Austin, tacked onto the AUS-HKG-ORD fare). I was wondering since ORD-AUS is a domestic leg and less than 24 hour layover, whether there is some way to get the system to book it as part of the same outbound flight from ORD to HKG.
AUS is not in the permitted routing, so it would most likely fare out ORD-AUS + AUS-HKG