<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by amanuensis:
This could have dire consequences for booking back-to-back tickets. In the past, you only got caught if you were using the same airline. Then, when alliances and code-sharing came along, you had to make sure that the two bookings were with airlines that had no overlap. Now, it make no longer be possible to do risk free back-to-back bookings.</font>
Um,.. no not really, the fare rules prohibit the back-to-back i.e. the taking of another flight on
the airline that issued the ticket in question to evade some portion of the fare rule of said ticket. They can't tell you that if you contract to fly on a second airline that you will have to pay them more as a result.