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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 7:15 am
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Originally Posted by onic
So I have been researching some milage runs to complete with the 2x europe promo and have an intresting senario.

I can book PHL-MUC roundtrip and MUC-PHL round trip for under $1000.

Trip A
PHL-ATL-MUC Depart 2/1 1Arrive 2/12
Trip B
MUC-ATL-PHL Depart 2/12 Arrive 2/12
Trip B
PHL-ATL-MUC Depart 2/17 Arrive 2/18
Trip A
MUC-ATL-PHL Depart 2/18 Arrive 2/18
Originally Posted by onic
I believe that my routing with the 2 tickets to MUC is not 'legal' in the view of DL. I wanted to get clarification before I book the tickets - I don't want to arrive in MUC and find out they won't let me board the return flight because I have 2 tickets and they are going to consider it 'back-to-back' ticketing
Of course they'll consider it back-to-back ticketing, it's the very definition of back-to-back ticketing. While many folks get away with back-to-back ticketing, if I had to bet on one airline most likely to catch it and sanction an FF for using it, Delta would be the one.

Originally Posted by onic
I want to fly all the ticketed segments - typically back-to-back ticketing is used get a lower price on the return segment and then not using the rest of the ticket.
This is not true, as I said what you propose is the very definition of back-to-back tickeitng, buying a round-trip ticket with no intention of using the return portion is called throw-away ticketing.
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