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Mar 6, 2023 | 9:26 am

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kfreezen

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Originally Posted by D582

If UA does not codeshare the domestic YVR-YWG flight (I'm not sure UA codeshares any AC domestic flights tbh), then you cannot use a UA through fare as "domestic" fares (which is what US-CAN fares are classified as) do not allow secondary participating carriers.

So you are booking a UA SFO-YVR end-on-end with an AC YVR-YWG fare. Most of UA's SFO-YVR fares are not combinable with AC's domestic fares as they don't allow combination with AC fares on the 'within Canada' tariff.

I wrote out a long and very knowledgeable sounding response. And then I deleted it because none of it helped.

I flew a YWG-YYZ back in 2018 that was a UA codeshare with AC. Have things always been like this for YVR flights, or is this a COVID/post-COVID border closure leftover?

Surely west-coast flights to Canada have not always been this difficult? Oh great and illustrious Scott Kirby, when will you deliver us from this sad state of cross-border travel?

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