FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Why are AA fares so expensive / non-competitive (2021+ consolidated)
Old Mar 9, 2025 | 1:56 pm
  #179  
Dave Noble
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
40 Countries Visited
3M
All eyes on you!
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 46,114
Originally Posted by xliioper
It's still a form of (open ended) nesting intended to defeat min stay requirements. But yes, AA would be far less likely to notice than if you were just nesting as two roundtrip bookings at a time. Hidden city bookings can also be employed to same money, but generally only in the return direction and it's also something AA can easily detect if done frequently.
It is not a form of nesting at all. It is simply buying a one way ticket and then a number of r/ts . If the person bought a round trip ticket with the return leg in , say 6 months, and then bought lots of r/t tickets inside, that would be nesting

There is no breach of any airline rule doing this
Dave Noble is offline