Changes to open-jaw + stopover rules
Oct 3, 2013 | 4:57 pm
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I may just try another agent, but they did go to rate desk who confirmed the pricing and the computer spat out the higher 200k.
Of course it's a little more confusing in that all the blogs state with absolute authority that one stopover and one open jaw is allowed, whereas the rules are pretty clear that it is one stopover and an open jaw counts as one stop-over. So it's not like I can quote the rule book at any agent, you just have to hope it works and if not, not much you can do
Of course it's a little more confusing in that all the blogs state with absolute authority that one stopover and one open jaw is allowed, whereas the rules are pretty clear that it is one stopover and an open jaw counts as one stop-over. So it's not like I can quote the rule book at any agent, you just have to hope it works and if not, not much you can do
I just did a booking:
BNA-CVG-CDG (destination)
CVG-BNA (stopover)
SLC-LAX (open jaw)
It priced out at 60K miles in coach (not flying that - used it for my example for next week). It also proves that the stopover does not have to be in a hub.
Oct 3, 2013 | 5:08 pm
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I am not a blogger, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that both an open jaw and a stopover are allowed. The problem is that you can't replicate this on delta.com since you can't find VS availability online. So you are at the mercy of the phone agent.
I just did a booking:
BNA-CVG-CDG (destination)
CVG-BNA (stopover)
SLC-LAX (open jaw)
It priced out at 60K miles in coach (not flying that - used it for my example for next week). It also proves that the stopover does not have to be in a hub.
I just did a booking:
BNA-CVG-CDG (destination)
CVG-BNA (stopover)
SLC-LAX (open jaw)
It priced out at 60K miles in coach (not flying that - used it for my example for next week). It also proves that the stopover does not have to be in a hub.
Anyway back to the problem in hand... I am going to try calling back (fortunately there are seats still available on all the legs I wanted). I just priced out something very similar where I could use all DL metal to get round the VS issue you point out. DTW-LHR (destination) LHR-JFK (stopover) LGA-RDU (open jaw) and it priced out at 60k. That does also rule out the co-terminal issue.
In fact none of it makes much sense as I was being quoted 200k. When I dropped the last leg, it went down to 100k. So for some reason that last leg was adding 100k (and not just the 45k it would be for a normal one way priced as round trip). Which leads me to think it was pricing it as IAD-LHR-MAN as a single one way priced as roundtrip, and then MAN-LHR-JFK (stopover) LGA-RDU as a separate single one way priced as round trip
Oct 3, 2013 | 8:02 pm
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I am not a blogger, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that both an open jaw and a stopover are allowed. The problem is that you can't replicate this on delta.com since you can't find VS availability online. So you are at the mercy of the phone agent.
I just did a booking:
BNA-CVG-CDG (destination)
CVG-BNA (stopover)
SLC-LAX (open jaw)
It priced out at 60K miles in coach (not flying that - used it for my example for next week). It also proves that the stopover does not have to be in a hub.
I just did a booking:
BNA-CVG-CDG (destination)
CVG-BNA (stopover)
SLC-LAX (open jaw)
It priced out at 60K miles in coach (not flying that - used it for my example for next week). It also proves that the stopover does not have to be in a hub.