Originally posted by LIH Prem:
I thought (and priced it out this way) that I should have used an open jaw between HNL-BOS and JFK-HNL, with free stopovers in SFO.
Something's not quite kosher here...how many S/O's did the fare allow? In responding below I will
assume it was two.
Breaking the fare on the west coast is almost always the cheaper way to go. You've stated that this was not the case, however, and so I would definately have purchased thru united.com - since airlines will generally honor anything which auto-prices.
The cheaper RT thru fares out of HI. allow two free S/O's. However, the open-jaw will count as one of them...and so stopping in SFO twice would give U too many to use a thru fare. If this was the case, I must side with your agent.
Sorry!.
However, if (???) the united.com site was giving you a thru fare with unlimited S/O's - I would have jumped the fence - and sided with you!
It's good to have tvl4free on your side.
if a particular fare is eligible to be booked on different carriers, what would I look for in the fare rules? Would it show up on the list of permissible routings?
Yes. For example:
ROUTING C002 FROM CJS-AM/MX-MEX-
TO AM/MX-CUN-MX-LIM*
OR TO AM-LIM*
[This message has been edited by tvl4free (edited 01-12-2001).]