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Old Nov 28, 2017, 6:58 pm
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jsloan
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Originally Posted by Miles Ahead
The reason I got a cheaper fare than on united.com is because this priced as DCA-HNL-DCA, with the "return" from HNL being HNL-MAJ-KWA-KSA-PNI-TKK-GUM-NRT-ORD-DCA, United.com would only book this putting the fare break in Guam. The original fare is no longer available.
It what?? Yeah, no wonder you got a better price then. Among the 19 other ways in which that would work out to be cheaper, that fare wouldn’t have the special surcharge for the Hopper.

To be clear — HNL-GUM-NRT-ORD-DCA is absolutely not a valid route on any HNL-DCA fare that I can find, for rather obvious reasons. :-) (It’s in the range of 150% longer than the nonstop distance).

Are you sure it didn’t price as WAS-HNL+HNL-NRT?
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