Originally Posted by SLF
Perceived wisdom here is not to use open dated sectors; if in doubt simply make dated bookings towards the end of the 12 month ticket validity period. For OWE tickets, date changes are free, so once you know the real dates you can simply pull it forwards. Best not to use an open dated sector for a variety of reasons.
If you know you'll be wanting to do LON-GIB after the route is dropped from LHR, then you should probably ticket it as LGW-GIB in the first place.
Thanks yet again
SLF (and
Darren and
Gardyloo!) ^ , I've changed to SFO-YVR-LHR, LGW-GIB at the tail end, and asked for it to be resubmitted with dates for JFK-...-GIB set in July/August next year.