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Old Mar 18, 2008 | 1:10 pm
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Originally Posted by United737522
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought you could not legally go from US city to US city via Canadian city. Yet, UA .bomb is selling ORD-YYZ-MCO and HNL-YVR-ORD. What gives?
It depends on the airline. AC cannot offer US-CA-US itins (as it doesn't have seventh freedom rights in the US), but can offer CA-US-CA. Likewise, UA cannot offer CA-US-CA tix but can offer US-CA-US.

It doesn't really matter where you connect, UA cannot fly you from a Canadian city to another Canadian city (as your start and end points). AC can't do routes such as SEA-YVR-NYC either. Where you connect is irrelevant.
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