why does not allow to buy mixed fare (saver fare and main fare) ticket?
Apr 28, 2019, 6:18 pm
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Round trip the most restricted fare rules apply to the whole ticket. The whole thing would become saver thus no reason to up charge to main. The same for all the US carriers with Basic type fares
Apr 28, 2019, 6:41 pm
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Also, the website won't show X if it's the same price as, or more expensive than, main. This leads to "forced" buy-ups on some multi-segment trips (on some short routes they have reduced X to be the same as main, presumably to compete with Southwest). So if you are using one of those segments as a connection, you have to buy up to main for the whole ticket. Probably a TA could book it, since AFAIK the fares that book into X still exist -- the website just won't show them.
But then you lose misconnect protection, and possibly the ability to check bags straight through? I'm not sure if AS will check bags thorough if there are multiple tickets.
Apr 28, 2019, 7:02 pm
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Apr 28, 2019, 9:49 pm
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Incorrect, as noted below
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Apr 29, 2019, 5:49 am
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website/app will show the individual segment fares on the search results screen, but when you go to the booking screen it will calculate the price as a thru fare (presuming the inventory is available on both segments)
Apr 29, 2019, 7:58 pm
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Apr 30, 2019, 1:24 pm
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I'm pretty sure OP was suggesting two one-ways as opposed to a round-trip ticket. SEA-MCO, MCO-SEA. I think the scenario you're proposing is where you have a connection outbound (or return), like SEA-PDX-MCO and breaking that into two tickets. I can't seen the benefit there - in my experience that's ALWAYS more expensive to split a ticket that way, even with saver fares.
Apr 30, 2019, 1:34 pm
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I'm pretty sure OP was suggesting two one-ways as opposed to a round-trip ticket. SEA-MCO, MCO-SEA. I think the scenario you're proposing is where you have a connection outbound (or return), like SEA-PDX-MCO and breaking that into two tickets. I can't seen the benefit there - in my experience that's ALWAYS more expensive to split a ticket that way, even with saver fares.
Edit: In fact, when I've looked at AS fare rules, they have always said they they were for direct flights only. Is that not standard for them?
Apr 30, 2019, 1:35 pm
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Apr 30, 2019, 1:38 pm
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What I'm saying is, when you make a connecting flight (one ticket or two) they charge you the sum of the segments. In the screen where you select your flights they even have a price for each segment -- you do not select it as a through ticket like you do with other carriers.
May 1, 2019, 8:49 am
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What I'm saying is, when you make a connecting flight (one ticket or two) they charge you the sum of the segments. In the screen where you select your flights they even have a price for each segment -- you do not select it as a through ticket like you do with other carriers.
To that end, I could see the point if the OP doesn't care about a seat or upgrade on SEA-PDX but does on PDX-MCO, why pay an extra $20 on SEA-PDX if the fare is calculating that way?
May 1, 2019, 10:26 am
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May 1, 2019, 10:57 am
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It depends. If the through fare is lower, it charges the through fare. If the sum of the two fares is lower, they charge the sum.
To that end, I could see the point if the OP doesn't care about a seat or upgrade on SEA-PDX but does on PDX-MCO, why pay an extra $20 on SEA-PDX if the fare is calculating that way?
To that end, I could see the point if the OP doesn't care about a seat or upgrade on SEA-PDX but does on PDX-MCO, why pay an extra $20 on SEA-PDX if the fare is calculating that way?
It is also published that Saver fares cannot be combined with any other fare type so the discussion is really moot. An itinerary is either saver or not. The only way would be to purchase two separate one-way tickets which in most cases will be more expensive than the through fare whether saver or main.
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