Why does AC prohibit back to back ticketing?
Sep 13, 2019, 11:41 am
#31
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Not that it seems to be enforced, but let's say I see a great fare originating in City X to City E and back instead of flying to the same city from my hometown, but to get to/from City X on both side i buy another separate ticket, would that be considered back to back ticketing?
Sep 13, 2019, 11:42 am
#32
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The issue is more when you buy two tickets and throw away the returns on each
you bought 4 flights
flew only 2
for the sole purpose of lowering the cost had you only bought 1 ticket
If you fly all the segments and show up for all the flights you did nothing wrong (in my 25+ years of experience of dealing with AC's debit memo department)
you bought 4 flights
flew only 2
for the sole purpose of lowering the cost had you only bought 1 ticket
If you fly all the segments and show up for all the flights you did nothing wrong (in my 25+ years of experience of dealing with AC's debit memo department)
Sep 13, 2019, 11:44 am
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Not that it seems to be enforced, but let's say I see a great fare originating in City X to City E and back instead of flying to the same city from my hometown, but to get to/from City X on both side i buy another separate ticket, would that be considered back to back ticketing?
Sep 13, 2019, 11:53 am
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In response to canadiancow:
These tickets would be nested, not back to back. Some carriers prohibit one but not the other, while others consider nested tickets to be OK if it's not done to evade minimum stay requirements (as in this example).
These tickets would be nested, not back to back. Some carriers prohibit one but not the other, while others consider nested tickets to be OK if it's not done to evade minimum stay requirements (as in this example).
Sep 13, 2019, 12:25 pm
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Sep 13, 2019, 12:29 pm
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True. And I will meet my travel needs in the example given by using two different carriers if my preferred carrier gives me grief about transporting me according to my needs because their accounting department doesn't like it.
Sep 13, 2019, 1:31 pm
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DL's CoC has similar wording. I often do nested tickets, but not for the purpose of circumventing minimum stay requirements.
Home-XXX June 1
XXX-YYY June 10
YYY-XXX June 20
XXX-Home June 30.
It is sorta hard for the carrier to argue that my intent was to circumvent rules (because it wasn't) but this is still a (allowable) nested ticket.
Now when doing a nested ticket back to the origination city, as this thread has covered, additional challenges are presented and it may result in a bad outcome. Can you get away with it once? Probably. Would I ever take that chance? No way.
Home-XXX June 1
XXX-YYY June 10
YYY-XXX June 20
XXX-Home June 30.
It is sorta hard for the carrier to argue that my intent was to circumvent rules (because it wasn't) but this is still a (allowable) nested ticket.
Now when doing a nested ticket back to the origination city, as this thread has covered, additional challenges are presented and it may result in a bad outcome. Can you get away with it once? Probably. Would I ever take that chance? No way.
The issue in this case is the company and employee in combination would be breaking the rule however both the company and employee were not in isolation.