Originally Posted by
christep
That way once they start the ticket and then need to adjust individual flights there is never a need to reissue the ticket even if what was originally ticketed as a stopover ends being a transit (they just forgo any tax refund, but save the reissue fee), and they hope that just rebooking a segment subsequently doesn't trigger married-segment lunacy.
The fact that what you said doesn't work is exactly what I am saying. Even if the ticketed point remains an O, if you are booking two flights and the time in between is less than 24 hours, the "married segment lunacy" is triggered. One must understand that the whole "married segment control" concept only occurs at the reservation end and has nothing to do with how the ticket routing was written.