Originally Posted by stephem (Post # 511)

I would call this "Channel-specific validation tolerance" (a nice euphemism for explaining that some OTAs will more readily plate anyone of many carriers on the outbound a different one on the "return") and that leads to "asymmetric carrier governance across pricing units" (a euphemism for saying that the two separate one way PUs probably are meant to attract two CIFs, but they are not). The net-net is that OTAs may well be better at finding and building these than ITA, and an OTA aggregator like Momondo may be thebest tool. [Emphasis added.]