Southwest airlines 'hopscotches' across the country. If you were to board their aircraft
having purchased individual tickets for each of these separate flights, you would have purchased 'point-to-point' tickets.

Using our example, buying a ticket from Newark to Chicago, then another from Chicago to LA, and then two more back to ORD and EWR, you would have purchased 'point-to-point' tickets.

'Point-to-point' ticketing can SOMETIMES save you money BIGTIME! Suppose you need to go from EWR to LAX and the cheapest 'walk up' fare is $1,400. So you call AA and they book you from EWR thru ORD to LAX. Fourteen hundred bucks! However, had you known that there is a cheap fare of say $ 250.00 from EWR to ORD and another fare of say $ 350.00 from ORD to LAX - you could have purchased the two 'point-to-point' tickets - and taken the EXACT same flights from EWR to ORD and on to LAX - and saved yourself $ 800!!!

Since we know that our psgr purchased a 'THRU FARE'(which is any fare that allows one to connect THRU some intermediate point) - we know that it was not a 'point-to-point' tkt - and this answer is, therefore, eliminated.

The travel agent who booked this reservation entered his AA and UA FF nos. into the record - which the psgr verified at check-in, both in EWR and LAX - and each separate account was credited with the trip's mileage.

But forget the fare!!! We only want to know what type of TRIP this psgr took... and the type of trip has nothing to do with the FARE that he purchased...and is determined strictly by the itinerary! Was it a one way, round trip, circle trip, and maybe we should consider an open jaw, too?




[This message has been edited by tvl4free (edited 01-11-2001).]