Originally Posted by
paperwastage
I would use multicity in Google flights or united to directly force the specific routing you want (put each leg directly in. The pricing may not be correct initially but see what happens at the checkout step
I sometimes do this when the "optimised" search engine doesn't give me the route or layover that I want
Matrix ita says it should be $6000+ (300k egp) when you force TATL to be O:UA, which is high
This for the win! i have used this 'trick' before but been a while since i have had to and to be honest doing the flights that i am these days. for some reason none of the searches were happy with that return trip. when i broke it up putting FRA as a destination and then a separate flight that same day from FRA onward it worked and was actually rather inexpensive.
TY
paperwastage for the reminder to use multicity in these situations!!
