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Old May 28, 2022, 7:14 am
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Originally Posted by EZEDoesIt
Don't expose our secret!!
If you want to go down a rabbit hole someday, search for the Mexican Hat Dance here in the olden days of FT. It was driven primarily by AC wanting to compete with I think JL on YVR-MEX.

Upshot was that AC allowed unlimited stopovers for their J fare, and the J fare YVR-MEX was far, far cheaper than the midweek refundable Y fare YVR-YYZ..... There were a number of FT dinners near ORD for folks who were routed YVR-YYZ-stopover-ORD-redeyeMEX.
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