Originally Posted by
BigLar
According to the definitions I could google up, this is not a back-to-back ticket.
Suppose: I have an assignment on the west coast, with a definite start and stop date, say start Aug 1 and finish up Oct 30. So I buy a round trip ticket.
Well, the guy I'm working for wants me to come back for a face-to-face every now and then, so once in a while I'll have to get a ticket back for a day or two in the middle of the assignment.
Are you telling me I have to watch my step and skulk off to another carrier because the airline I bought the original r/t from will somehow track me down and force me to by unrestricted tickets or something? Does it really work this way?
According to all the definitions of back-to-back ticketing that I have heard, what the OP is doing is bac-to-back ticketing - same orgin and destination points, using first half of each ticket for the first trip, second half of each ticket for the second trip. If the fares price out the same whether he purchased two consecutive from IND to BUF and back or they way he described, it probably won't be an issue.
I personally know someone who was asked to pay $1,500 for "back-to-back" ticketing with Delta several years ago. I think it was PDX-DFW-PDX.
Ticket 1
Day 1 (Monday) PDX-DFW
Day 12 (Friday) DFW-PDX
Ticket 2
Day 5 (Friday) DFW-PDX
Day 8 (Monday) PDX-DFW
If he had purchased the tickets as Day 1 to Day 5 and Day 8 to Day 12, the fare would have been much higher and ended up being so, since DL socked him for most of the original $1,500 they asked for.