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Old Oct 30, 2025 | 10:09 pm
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Originally Posted by fossey
cfischer Thanks for the insight here with SDCs.... Can I make sure I have this right? I can book, say, DCA to LGA for $140 R/T.... while in the air, request to change my next leg to LGA-BOS instead, then do the same to ping-pong back and forth between LGA and BOS maybe a couple times, then finally relent and go home to DCA--all for $140? I need 21 PQF and $1987 PQP to retain 1K. Thanks!
You need to make the change before you take off and you can't change your destination. In your example you'd have to add a segment between DCA and LGA, a route I don't think United flies so you'd have to have a connection.

Changing the example to DCA to EWR, you could try to change the routing to DCA to ORD to EWR.
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