Hi All
Lots of good information from handles I trust. Thank you.
Originally Posted by
findark
The general feature is that you can't route p.s. on BOS/LAX per the fare rules, and these direct P fares are taking advantage of a fare template which forgot to exclude SFO-BOS (since the routing rules don't allow it), and also require travel which is not nonstop. However, technically flying LAX-SFO-BOS as a direct flight routes as LAX-BOS and is not nonstop.
The direct flight fare was quite a bit cheaper versus any other p.s. option. This adds some additional clarification.