Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
A TA will not be able to combine the 2 fares into 1 booking since the fares specifically prohibit it
It can only be done as 2 separate tickets and so wil not be on a single booking reference regardless
No, they don't. Trust me, I'm an IATA travel agent and I do it every day. The fare rule you are citing prohibits combining the two fares in one ticket. Nevertheless, it is absolutely no problem and perfectly within the rules to combine the flights in one PNR and issue two tickets.
Such a PNR could look like this:
1 AA 36I 20OCT 2 DFWMAD SS1 1545 0800 21OCT 3
2 IB3480I 21OCT 3 MADGVA SS1 0935 1130
3 IB3493I 28OCT 3 GVAMAD SS1 1835 2040
4 AA 37I 29OCT 4 MADDFW SS1 1115 1600
And the tickets we'd issue would be one on 001 stock for segments 1 and 4 and another one on 075 stock for segments 2 and 3.
Granted, if you book online this would not be possible. But as soon as something semi-complicated like this scenario is needed a human agent produces a much better result.