Good morning all.

I'm having some issues with booking some tickets and I'm wondering if anyone has some advice on how to handle this.

We'll be flying SNA-SFO, SFO-PPT, PPT-SFO, and then back using SFO-SNA. We'd like the two short legs from SNA-SFO and back to be in Basic Economy to save money, with the two SFO-PPT and back legs to be in Premium Economy for the longer haul comfort and to be able to (hopefully) sleep. However, the United app and website both won't allow this, saying that they won't combine different fare classes on an itinerary like this, certainly not Basic Economy.

Just curious if this is accurate? Is this United's policy now? If it is, is there a way around this? We could buy separate round trip tickets for each sector (round trip SNA-SFO-SNA, then round trip (SFO-PPT-SFO) I suppose, but getting our suitcases and having to go in and out of security again might be a pain. Any other ideas?

Many thanks,

Bob