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Old May 23, 2015 | 4:42 pm
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Originally Posted by 781elephant
Depends... usually JFK.

I would like to book: CMB -> JKF -> DXB -> CMB

This time for example I was going to use MXP as my stop over city so: CMB -> MXP -> JFK -> CMB.

But right now apparently there is a fare restriction for premium fares ex CMB so the rule is that it will be booked as two tickets, first being CMB - DXB round trip and second is DXB - XXX. The ex DXB tickets are much more expensive than the ex CMB fares so the benefit is lost.
Ok so get the latest flight of Cmb and your connection is plus 12 hours...good point about the one month return that's also an issue.

Not sure why ek is so bothered about ex Cmb to be honest.
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