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Round trip with 2 diff. airlines

I will need to accompany my dad back to Jakarta from Los Angeles. He already has a ticket on JAL via NRT. On the way back, I will have to accompany my mom. She, however, would love to stop in Hong Kong to do some shopping. Is there a cheap way to purchase JAL and CX for this r/t journey LAX-NRT-CGK-HKG-LAX ? I tried to price it through itn.net and it's always over $2000 ! I found out that buying 2 r/t is cheaper for $1400 and not use 1/2 of the tickets on both carriers? (i.e. LAX-NRT-CKG-NRT-LAX, and CGK-HKG-LAX-HKG-CGK).

Or is there any other way for me to do this routing?

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SeaMeFly:
I will need to accompany my dad back to Jakarta from Los Angeles. He already has a ticket on JAL via NRT. On the way back, I will have to accompany my mom. She, however, would love to stop in Hong Kong to do some shopping. Is there a cheap way to purchase JAL and CX for this r/t journey LAX-NRT-CGK-HKG-LAX ? I tried to price it through itn.net and it's always over $2000 ! I found out that buying 2 r/t is cheaper for $1400 and not use 1/2 of the tickets on both carriers? (i.e. LAX-NRT-CKG-NRT-LAX, and CGK-HKG-LAX-HKG-CGK).

Or is there any other way for me to do this routing? </font>

can u use the pairs at another time of year.. ie . book the flight out now and returning sometime 10months later , then buying another from the destination - back sometime 9 1/2 month later..