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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
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It's a time-honored play with potential pitfalls like what dbaker mentioned. Airlines hate it and may even say it's against the rules, but it's 100% legal, as well it ought to be. I saved well over $200 by breaking an ATL-HNL into ATL-LAX and LAX-HNL separate tickets a couple of years ago.