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Old Oct 26, 2002 | 4:40 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by sjunkerg:
Some last minute changes to work is causing me to consider the following trip

already started itinerary

XXX - Home
Home - XXX

new itinerary inserted into the first
YYY - Home
Home - YYY

I know that if XXX=YYY this would be back-to-back ticketing or nesting of same city pairs which is not allowed. If XXX and YYY were in different parts of the country, I should be fine but in my case the two cities are less than 150 miles apart. Will United have a problem with this?

Thanks
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I'm curious to the answer to this. Can you simply use an alternate airport to leverage this?

e.g.,

SFO-JFK (Ticket 1, Coupon 1)
EWR-SFO (Ticket 2, Coupon 1)
SFO-EWR (Ticket 2, Coupon 2)
JFK-SFO (Ticket 1, Coupon 2)

or if you want to be even "cleaner" about it,
SFO-JFK (Ticket 1, Coupon 1)
EWR-OAK (Ticket 2, Coupon 1)
OAK-EWR (Ticket 2, Coupon 2)
JFK-SFO (Ticket 1, Coupon 2)

Of course the cleanest approach would be to use two carriers. With the US-UA parternship, you get one UA ticket and one US ticket and it's very clean.
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