Originally Posted by
jkatzen
This may be how the system is applying it, but I don't think it's what the rules say.
My reading of it suggests that the rules only require that the open jaw be no larger than the smallest fare "component", which is equivalent to the distance of a single direction fare designator, . . . not that it be smaller than any segment in the trip.
You are certainly correct here.
Is it possible that the EWR-SMF return was pricing with a fare break thus violating the"2 fare component" rule on the outbound fare?