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Old May 1, 2019 | 8:49 am
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Originally Posted by VegasGambler
What I'm saying is, when you make a connecting flight (one ticket or two) they charge you the sum of the segments. In the screen where you select your flights they even have a price for each segment -- you do not select it as a through ticket like you do with other carriers.
It depends. If the through fare is lower, it charges the through fare. If the sum of the two fares is lower, they charge the sum.


Originally Posted by bmvaughn
Exactly, so why would you break SEA-PDX-MCO as your outbound into two tickets?
To that end, I could see the point if the OP doesn't care about a seat or upgrade on SEA-PDX but does on PDX-MCO, why pay an extra $20 on SEA-PDX if the fare is calculating that way?
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