Originally Posted by
arifjk
This conversation brings me to a question... is M/R actually allowable? Or United actually discourages (if not prohibits) M/R?
As said, a bookable routing is a bookable routing, for whatever reason. UA sets the rulles, we follow them.
Anyway, when does a non-typical routing become a MR, and why should they care?
More than once I've flown BOS-DEN-SFO-HKG instead of BOS-ORD-HKG, and not for milage reasons. I actually had no kidding business to do in each city, all short meetings, so I got them all done on the way to the other side of the world.
The airlines are already the undisputed world champions of logic defying rules and policies (and financial managment?), maybe they are just annoyed that we have figured out a way to actually make them work in
our favor for once?
Its sort of like the gratification I get from making the slime ball policies of the credit card companies actually work in my favor to earn me money instead of them ripping me off......