Question about nesting
 

Hi,

I will be making a lot of DTW-SEA round trips (no saturday night stay), and noticed that for some reason the pricing on a four-legged DTW-SEA-DTW-SEA-DTW ticket is a lot better than buying two separate round trips.

If NWA lets me buy one ticket like this, I'd assume it's legit and that I will get all the FF miles, but I wanted to be sure: is this kosher?

Relax -- You can't be accused of nesting in ONE ticket!
 

If you buy a ticket from NW all segments, stopovers, connections must meet NW's published fare rules.

Therefore you have ZERO risk and should also earn WP miles on the entire itinerary.

If the cost is less than 2 tickets, that is a bonus!

Good Luck!

RC

In fact, you've just discovered the way to get around the nesting/back-to-back ticketing problem! ^

aloha

I'm curious -- what's the price difference?

The drawback, is that if you have to cancel one of the trips, you have to refare the whole thing.

the bonus is that if you have to cancel both trips, you're out only one penalty.

If the price difference is relatively small, it may just be due to a lack of regulatory fees/taxes. Last summer I bought a ticket that was essentially two roundtrips (spaced out far enough that even if I had bought them separately, they would have been Saturday night stayovers with the same fare class).

It was slightly cheaper, but only because certain taxes/fees are charged per-ticket, and it counted as one ticket. I once tried to get 3 round trips on one itinerary, but Silver line couldn't do it (they tried, but the computer kept rejecting it).

But if your price difference is significant, than this is a great thing to keep in mind of folks who go back and forth with plenty of notice between two places.

More nesting
 

One thing similar I did was

LAX to DTW
(Gap of 1 day)
DTW to ONT
(Gap of 2 weeks)
ONT to DTW
(Gap of 1 day)
DTW to LAX

On a combo of NW and CO flights

The $3500 cost of two round trips became $400, clearly I had to get a ride to and from the airports.

If you find a local airport to SEA it might work

Steve

The trips are for work and my commuting schedule is pretty regular so I'm not worried about cancellations.

The price difference is almost 50%--about 550 RT for each trip (Sun-Wed so no sat night stayover), and about 600 for the round-trip-X2.