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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 9:39 am
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Doc Fraud
 
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Originally Posted by Canadair
HELP PLEASE! I am so frustrated! I just spent 125 minutes and 15 seconds on the phone with Aeroplan. I found a routing with availability, and after asking them right at the get go whether it was legal, the agent said yes.

I was trying to go, ultimately, YYZ-BKK (open jaw), HKT-HKG (stopover) HKG-YYZ. I found availability on the following routing:



Feb 17 YYZ-EWR-SIN-BKK arrive Feb 19 (the EWR-SIN was the Singapore Airlines direct flight, which I would prefer to take)

Feb 28 HKT-BKK-SIN-HKG

Mar 4 HKG-SIN-PEK-YYZ arrive March 5 at 15:10 (need to be back in YYZ before 17:00)


After telling me it was available and cancelling my EXISTING booking, he came back and said that it was not a legal routing. It then took another hour to rebook my old routing...argh!

I guess my question is, can anybody speculate on what makes that routing illegal? I mean, it could be many things...I guess HKG-SIN-PEK-YYZ might be the culprit. I'm willing to ditch the open jaw and the HKT-BKK section, if that's the reason. I need to change my itinerary, but I would like to know whether or not a particular routing is legal BEFORE waiting for so long!

Thanks in advance,
Canadair
You are backtracking. Its not the open jaw thats causing the problem, its the fact that you are going through SIN twice on the return portion. If you can eliminate SIN on the return you should be OK.

DF
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