Just In Press Release from United
#17
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: MCO
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Platinum / Titanium, AA Executive Platinum
Posts: 1,017
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RustyC:
[BWrongful? Get outta here! Gaming the system (legally, I might add) is no more wrongful than coming up with all these restrictions to try to wring more money out of customers.[/B]</font>
[BWrongful? Get outta here! Gaming the system (legally, I might add) is no more wrongful than coming up with all these restrictions to try to wring more money out of customers.[/B]</font>
#18
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Phila, PA USA
Posts: 13
I must be stupid but they have not caught me in 3 years and all the while due to my frequency and ff program level I have not sat in the back in the last three years - so whos stupid - certainly not me but the airline since i even book online throught their site.
#20
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: CH-3823 Wengen Switzerland
Programs: miles&more, MileagePlus
Posts: 27,042
if, for back to back ticketing, the market forces you to book the same airline, my advice is, book the second ticket with another alliance-ff-program (or none at all if you really don't have/want a second).
#21
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: LAS
Programs: WN:No status in 2015; UA:1K long gone (1995-2003).
Posts: 1,595
Have never intentionally done back to back myself on UA or another carrier. But a couple of years ago I was challenged by an AA phone agent on what he suspected was back to back ticketing. Part of the airlines definition of back to back includes the language "... for the purpose of circumventing minimum stay rules..."
I did have two tickets which had been purchased at different times and the order usage of the tickets criss-crossed but had the two tickets been purchased at the same time and in flight order, all minimum stay requirements would have been met, hence no fare rules were violated. After checking with a supervisor, he agreed no rules were violated.
Bottom line is the airlines do check this and can easily do so by auditing all travel under a FF number.
I did have two tickets which had been purchased at different times and the order usage of the tickets criss-crossed but had the two tickets been purchased at the same time and in flight order, all minimum stay requirements would have been met, hence no fare rules were violated. After checking with a supervisor, he agreed no rules were violated.
Bottom line is the airlines do check this and can easily do so by auditing all travel under a FF number.