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Old Mar 10, 2008 | 12:32 pm
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Originally Posted by MiamiBeach

One thing I don't understand about your comment on open segments is... Let's say I book a segment on UIO-EZE, confirm a date in FEB2009 now, but the service is discontinued starting in APR2009, and I really want to fly in MAY2009. In that case having a confirmed segment is absolutely no help to me right?
Yeah, my point was that leaving the segments open has no more value than booking some random dates at original issue, this was basically based on the fact that open segments = max. taxes as all possible transits are counted as stopovers no matter what is the reality.
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