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Originally Posted by Polytonic
How much does DL care about nested ticketing?

I have a ticket YVR-CDG RT on AF metal (booked thru DL with GUCs applied). I'd like to wrap this with SEA-YVR RT on DL. No bags, shouldn't have any requirement to thru-check or interline in either direction.

I'm not circumventing any back-to-back or end-on-end restrictions as far as I know. I could also book the positioning segments as oneways if that makes any difference.
Nesting alone is not an issue. It's only when you make repeated short-duration trips to same destination that do not normally meet roundtrip fare min-stay requirements and thus don't qualify for cheaper roundtrip fares and nest roundtrip bookings in the opposite direction to qualify for them. So if you regularly travel AAA-BBB Sun-Thu, you could book a roundtrip from AAA-BBB with a return the Thursday of following week, and then nest a BBB-AAA Thu-Sun roundtrip inside that and accomplish the same thing as two consective AAA-BBB Sun-Thu roundtrips, but qualify for cheaper Sat night stay roundtrip fares. But you'd generally need to make many such bookings before you'd show up on an airline's radar.
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