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Old Apr 24, 2018 | 10:05 pm
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Originally Posted by laxmillenial
Search your legs separately. What you're seeing is very common. It's because the feeder fligth doesn't have R space, while the ORD-LHR does. But if you search them together, it takes the lowest common number between the two.
For example, if LAX-ORD has R1. And ORD-LHR has R9. If you search LAX-LHR (connecting in ORD), you'll see R1 displayed for both legs.

Yes you would, just search the ORD-LHR flight separately to see how many R spaces are available if it's more than you
Interesting! Thank you for the info! I even tried the GPU search option and it listed the second group of flights as waitlist only.
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