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For the holidays I flew a nested fare. It was the cheapest way I could find to fly the itinerary I wanted. The first ticket was: 11/20 SFO - MHT 12/30 BOS - SF

by bhickey 14y ago

For the holidays I flew a nested fare. It was the cheapest way I could find to fly the itinerary I wanted. The first ticket was: 11/20 SFO - MHT 12/30 BOS - SFO And the second: 11/25 PVD - SFO 12/20 SFO - PVD

csense 14y ago
I don't fly regularly, and I'm not experienced at bargain hunting with respect to air travel. I'm not really sure what I'm looking at, but I'm thinking this means you bought four trips, sorted by date like this: A : 11/20 : SFO - MHT B : 11/25 : PVD - SFO C : 12/20 : SFO - PVD D : 12/30 : BOS - SFO And you bought these in round-trip pairs, AD was one pair and BC was another pair. Which might be cheaper than buying AB and CD, depending on what's available, especially if the tickets are from different airlines. Shouldn't those sites that compare a bunch of airlines have software that figures this out for you automatically?
grimlck 14y ago
Beware that nesting tickets to circumvent minimum stay requirements is almost certainly against fare rules. For example, http://www.aa.com/i18nForward.do?p=/customerService/customerCommitment/conditionsOfCarriage.jsp&v_locale=en_US&v_mobileUAFlag=AA#TicketCompliance http://www.aa.com/i18nForward.do?p=/customerService/customer... American specifically prohibits the practices commonly known as: Back to Back Ticketing: The combination of two or more roundtrip excursion fares end to end for the purpose of circumventing minimum stay requirements. And yes, there are automated algorithms to detect that (although both tickets would need to be on the same airline for those algorithms to work, and the fact that MHT/BOS/PVD are different airports may be enough to get around that in your case)
- bhickey 14y ago
  I flew the entire itinerary on United. I wouldn't have booked it with a single East Coast airport for fear of running afoul of a fare rule. In the future, I'll spread a nest itinerary over two carriers just to be sure.

by bhickey 14y ago

csense 14y ago

I don't fly regularly, and I'm not experienced at bargain hunting with respect to air travel. I'm not really sure what I'm looking at, but I'm thinking this means you bought four trips, sorted by date like this: A : 11/20 : SFO - MHT B : 11/25 : PVD - SFO C : 12/20 : SFO - PVD D : 12/30 : BOS - SFO And you bought these in round-trip pairs, AD was one pair and BC was another pair. Which might be cheaper than buying AB and CD, depending on what's available, especially if the tickets are from different airlines. Shouldn't those sites that compare a bunch of airlines have software that figures this out for you automatically?

grimlck 14y ago

Beware that nesting tickets to circumvent minimum stay requirements is almost certainly against fare rules. For example, http://www.aa.com/i18nForward.do?p=/customerService/customerCommitment/conditionsOfCarriage.jsp&v_locale=en_US&v_mobileUAFlag=AA#TicketCompliance http://www.aa.com/i18nForward.do?p=/customerService/customer... American specifically prohibits the practices commonly known as: Back to Back Ticketing: The combination of two or more roundtrip excursion fares end to end for the purpose of circumventing minimum stay requirements. And yes, there are automated algorithms to detect that (although both tickets would need to be on the same airline for those algorithms to work, and the fact that MHT/BOS/PVD are different airports may be enough to get around that in your case)

bhickey 14y ago
I flew the entire itinerary on United. I wouldn't have booked it with a single East Coast airport for fear of running afoul of a fare rule. In the future, I'll spread a nest itinerary over two carriers just to be sure.