overlapping/staggered pnr's to rake in flight segments
May 22, 2024, 12:52 am
#1
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Join Date: Dec 2018
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overlapping/staggered pnr's to rake in flight segments
My airline loyalty program has a partner with dirt cheap short haul flights. I usually travel a handful of very log haul international flights and points aren't a problem - flight segments are though.
Theoretically i could book stacked non-stop flights, and get 4 to 6 segments per day for about $20/segment. However, itinerary A would start day 1, and end day 3. Itinerary B would start day 2 and end day 4. I would stack more, if it's viable, so I'm simplifying for practical communication.
Does this violate a standard airline policy, as does say, skip lagging?
Apologies if this is the wrong sub, it just seemed as close as I could find.
Cheers.
Theoretically i could book stacked non-stop flights, and get 4 to 6 segments per day for about $20/segment. However, itinerary A would start day 1, and end day 3. Itinerary B would start day 2 and end day 4. I would stack more, if it's viable, so I'm simplifying for practical communication.
Does this violate a standard airline policy, as does say, skip lagging?
Apologies if this is the wrong sub, it just seemed as close as I could find.
Cheers.
May 22, 2024, 7:12 am
#5
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: CLT
Posts: 2,177
You're not violating any policy. You're going to fly each of the trips you booked, so you shouldn't have a problem unless one flight gets a huge delay or cancellation, then you might not be able to make it to the starting point of the next trip.
May 22, 2024, 11:39 am
#6
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: London
Programs: Hilton, IHG - BA, GA, LH, QR, SV, TK
Posts: 17,105
The tendency it is to schedule these things tightly to fit as much as possible into a just a a day or two. All that can unravel quickly if there are delays, IRROPs.
May 23, 2024, 1:31 pm
#8
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: ord/bkk based
Posts: 228
i achieved my AA EXP by 108 and 112 segments respectively the 2 years i had it.
not these nesting itineraries, just goofiness like driving from the nw chicago suburbs to milwaukee so i could fly MKE-ORD-MSP and back instead of just driving to ohare. was it worth it? well...
not these nesting itineraries, just goofiness like driving from the nw chicago suburbs to milwaukee so i could fly MKE-ORD-MSP and back instead of just driving to ohare. was it worth it? well...
May 23, 2024, 7:21 pm
#9
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: CLT
Posts: 2,177
i achieved my AA EXP by 108 and 112 segments respectively the 2 years i had it.
not these nesting itineraries, just goofiness like driving from the nw chicago suburbs to milwaukee so i could fly MKE-ORD-MSP and back instead of just driving to ohare. was it worth it? well...
not these nesting itineraries, just goofiness like driving from the nw chicago suburbs to milwaukee so i could fly MKE-ORD-MSP and back instead of just driving to ohare. was it worth it? well...
Segments don't mean anything anymore, but now you could take the train to MKE.
May 23, 2024, 9:46 pm
#10
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: ord/bkk based
Posts: 228
although will end up with about 120k miles credited to alaska and mvp 100, largely due to bopping through the mediterranean on deals through FT and working them in to work travel