Originally Posted by
stephem
OP, you should put the longest segment in hold and then call in w some of these creative ideas and see what you can get to ticket. For all the talk of these rules, the main thread linked above is filled w examples of people getting something ticketed that should technically not be allowed. Pretty much everything that i have booked over the years violates one or more of these rules.
So agents might be more flexible routing wise when adding additional segments to an existing award on hold (consisting of the primary desired long haul segment) than they might be if you fed them a similarly creative itinerary segment by segment? Makes sense.