Originally Posted by
zspitzer
I was under the impression multi city flights priced as sequential one way tickets
I'm not sure what would lead you to this impression, but it is certainly not the case in the modern fare environment. Also the fares you're looking at are not all one-ways.
Originally Posted by
Katy1918
I am having a somewhat similar problem with multi city scheduling. I want to fly from IAH to Brussels and then back from Frankfurt to IAH on award flights. Priced separately they are 70k each way. When I put them together they show 155k each way. Why?. Is that United's way to avoid an excursionist perk unless it is at the higher mileage?
IDK about that ExPerk theory, but UA imposes extensive opaque limitations on what can be booked together on award tickets.