Originally Posted by
george77300
Just tested it out. You definitely need a LHR in the return. Also it isn’t liking via HEL one way and MAD the other. Seems you can do either to get it to work but same for both.
Ie. LHR MAD JFK LAX // LAX JFK MAD LHR (from around £1450)
OR LHR HEL JFK LAX // LAX JFK HEL LHR (from around £1500)
Why you can’t mix and match I don’t know. The latter option will give an extra 80TP due to HEL being longer than MAD.
Edit: Multi City not necessary for the above but maybe necessary for going via MAD one way and HEL the other. Not sure why though.
Same conclusions here - for some reason it can't deduce a price for a MAD / HEL split without using multiple legs.
My contribution for the day is that you can route outbound via SFO rather than LAX and therefore spend a day there rather than Los Angeles on the way out - the price was effectively the same. Couldn't get a routing through SFO on the way back without the price jumping.