How to force connection or force airline?
 

Hello all,

I am very new here and I have been scouring the net and this forum for a tool that will let me do the following.

I want to book a flight from my small municipal airport, connect through a large airport, and pick up the airline of my choice.

For instance, I want to fly from TLH (my home airport) to say LAS. And I want to do maximize points on Virgin or JetBlue. I am a 1hr hop from ATL or MIA. But I cannot seem to find ANY software that lets me force routing through a particular airport or that will let me FORCE a ride on a specific airline.

Is there a way to do this? Or am I going to be stuck doing a bunch of one-way legs?

Thanks for your time.

Wow,

111 views, no comments. I guess it really isn't possible.

ITA does this and so much more but you can't reserve through that.

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

Try this routing code: VX,B6 ATL,MIA VX,B6 No flights found for TLH-LAS. I think only American and Delta flies TLH and you can't make a booking across AA / DL and VX or B6. So two bookings.

Thank you, I will look into this more. I had been on that site, but not being an "expert" flyer, found it confusing.

Hi PerroneFord, this is what ExpertFlyer was built for. Not only can you force 1 or 2 connection options with our Flight Availability search, but you can specify 1 or 2 connecting cities as well to get the flight options you want.

You can learn more, and sign up for our 5-day free trial, here: http://www.expertflyer.com/frequent-flyer-programs

Yea, I'm already a member. I guess this isn't a part of your free service. Too bad.

No, the Free service is Seat Alerts only. Flight Availability is part of our Basic service, which is only $4.99 a month, which most find a small price to pay for the ability to easily do specific searches of that nature.

If you want to force it during booking then just use the multi-city option of any of the online booking engines.

Be aware that your desire to maximize time on Virgin America or JetBlue is going to work against you as those carriers do not interline well with other airlines (B6/AA can but that's basically it for domestic flights). This means you cannot buy a single ticket with TLH-ATL-JFK on DL and then JFK-LAS on B6.