Originally Posted by
bfmorgan
I will do that for paid flights in the future. For my next flight, it is a RR ticket and when I asked on the phone if I could build my own itenerary to fly from SJC, they said no.
Did you happen to note the agent's name? They were incorrect.
Originally Posted by
bfmorgan
Has anyone has cust serv build a RR itenerary between two cities that do not officially connect?
Don't bother. You can do it yourself online. Select your departure airport, your intermediate city as your arrival, and LIT as your return. As long as you can piece together a routing with no more than a four hour layover at your intermediate city, the reservation system will treat it as a one-way and use only half of your award ticket accordingly. For example, you could book SJC-LIT on January 8 as SJC-ABQ-LIT with an actual routing of SJC-LAS-ABQ-DAL-LIT (flights 1174, 778, 1940 and 3168; yes, three plane changes
) for just one half of an award.
I'd love to see the look on the counter agent's face when you checked luggage on such an itinerary.