Originally Posted by
mtkeller
It's possible, but we have yet to ascertain exactly what circumstances make it work.
I'm about 2 for 4 when it comes to getting agents to book this.
Originally Posted by
mtkeller
There is no such rule, despite how much bloggers claim it. amolkold has a nice example somewhere of a trip he booked for his sister where the return was from Vietnam to ATL using VN and AF.
That would be
here ... HAN-ATL via CDG and IAD on VN/AF/DL.
Delta likes to keep awards under MPM ... well, HAN-ATL via the Atlantic has an MPM fare:
Not only that, but AF (the overwater carrier) publishes an Atlantic crossing fare as well.
I was ready with those 2 data points if the agent said no, but the Chisholm rep I booked it with was okay with it. Only problem was that it took about 80 minutes to have the taxes manually priced. It came out to $111 (the outbound was ATL-IAD-CDG-BOM) and so I was fine with that and booked.
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The idea about "crossing two oceans" or "crossing two continents" creating an RTW is absurd. I've been booking award tickets to India for well over a decade now, and having done them from the west coast, both via the Atlantic and via the Pacific are valid routings. I've booked LAX-JFK-CDG-BOM, BOM-ICN-LAX with DL miles; I've booked LAX-KIX-BKK-BOM-FRA-IAH-LAX with United miles; I've booked LAX-SFO-FRA-ZRH-HKG-BKK-FRA-LHR-LAX with US miles; I haven't done them with AA miles, but that's because they actually spell out regional restrictions. As long as your origin and destination allow routing via a specific ocean, you can use that routing. If your origin and destination allow a routing that covers 2 oceans, you can do 1 ocean one-way and the other ocean the other. If they are valid by themselves as one-ways, they should be valid together as a round-trip,
period. Unfortunately, many agents do not believe this.