One or two tickets? What is the difference?
Mar 26, 2003 | 11:56 pm
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One or two tickets? What is the difference?
I am going to buy a ticket AMS-LAS.
While AMS-LAS is more than $ 800.
AMS-EWR is $300 and EWR-LAS is $300 = a total of $600
They say if I buy 2 tickets they would link the reservations (they said it is called "cloned") and there would be no difference than buying one ticket.
Is that true?
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Oliver
While AMS-LAS is more than $ 800.
AMS-EWR is $300 and EWR-LAS is $300 = a total of $600
They say if I buy 2 tickets they would link the reservations (they said it is called "cloned") and there would be no difference than buying one ticket.
Is that true?
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Mar 27, 2003 | 12:32 am
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Interline is another term -- although it's usually used to refer to travel on more than one carrier on a single ticket.
No, you shouldn't have a problem if you do it when you make your reservation... use the mult-city feature, or tell them over the phone. If you purchase two tickets separately and CO cancels or changes the timeing of one of the flights, you may be SOL...
No, you shouldn't have a problem if you do it when you make your reservation... use the mult-city feature, or tell them over the phone. If you purchase two tickets separately and CO cancels or changes the timeing of one of the flights, you may be SOL...
Mar 27, 2003 | 12:48 am
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They are both CO tickets, the agent I spoke to said since the reservations are linked ("cloned") I still should be protected as if it was one ticket?
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Mar 27, 2003 | 1:06 am
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Nope, you shouldn't have a problem -- it's essentially like purchasing one ticket.
Mar 27, 2003 | 9:04 am
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You can put this on one ticket, and it will have two fare bases.
Mar 28, 2003 | 3:02 am
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I tried that, but they refused to do 2 farebases on one ticket!
If anybody gets the name of somebody at CO that would be willing to put these 2 farebases in ONE ticket, please email me. I tried several agents and they just did not want to do it!
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If anybody gets the name of somebody at CO that would be willing to put these 2 farebases in ONE ticket, please email me. I tried several agents and they just did not want to do it!
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Mar 28, 2003 | 8:48 am
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I did a simelar thing a few years ago flying from England. I needed to fly LGW > PDX. The cheapest fare at the time was around $900, but the fare to EWR was $450. I bought a r/t LGW > EWR, and used 25,000 miles to book a seperate ticket from EWR > PDX watchting the connection times etc. When I showed up at LGW with 2 seperate sets of tickets I had no problems, the agent even checked me and my baggage all the way through to PDX.
Mar 28, 2003 | 11:01 am
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Thank you VERY much for charing your experience!
That sure sounds good, as I am still worried about the short connection that I have.
Not so much about missing the second flight(there is al later one), but being hasseled because of the 2 tickets
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That sure sounds good, as I am still worried about the short connection that I have.
Not so much about missing the second flight(there is al later one), but being hasseled because of the 2 tickets
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Mar 28, 2003 | 11:11 am
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A travel agent might be able to do it. I had an agent in Houston book me on two seperate tickets JFK-CDG and CDG-DEL, which worked out to be substantially cheaper than JFK-DEL. I had no problem with it. I was, however, a Delta ticket and CO might have different rules.
Can you not book this ticket on CO.com yourself?
Can you not book this ticket on CO.com yourself?
Mar 28, 2003 | 2:44 pm
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There really is no way anybody can stop you doing this, especially if you have plenty of time to make the connection.
If the worst comes to the worst, buy 2 seperate tickets on continental.com or from whoever you like, fly the first leg, get to EWR, check in for the next leg at EWR, get to your destination. CO might treat them as 2 totally seperate reservations but who cares?
If the worst comes to the worst, buy 2 seperate tickets on continental.com or from whoever you like, fly the first leg, get to EWR, check in for the next leg at EWR, get to your destination. CO might treat them as 2 totally seperate reservations but who cares?