"Married" connection?
I am booking a trip from SFO to Istanbul in december through work travel agent.
They came back with LH sfo-fra-Ist with a ~2 hour connection time. I asked to be moved to the sfo-fra flight on united metal, departing an hour earlier than the LH flight. I was told by our travel agent that is considered a married connection and as such is almost 3K more round trip. Wait time in FRA for this flight is exactly 3 hours.
Have never heard of this before. On united.com this comes up as a regularly priced option when doing a search for SFO-IST routing.
I would really prefer to fly United metal for obvious reasons, but can't justify the increased spend. The travel agent did mention they occasionally change the rules on these connections and to try back in a week.
Anyone have experience with this and know how likely it is to change in the next month or so?