Classic reward multi city - removing first leg after booking possible?

[jamo96]

*edit - updated threat title and related question posted*

Hi all.

I can see that a leg is available on the multi city page when a different destination is used but not when the actual destination is used. For eg.

Wanting to book Kathmandu to Hong Kong. This comes up as a leg on a search for Kathmandu to Singapore. However, when I called to book the KTM to HKG the operator said there is no availability.

Is it possible to book these?

Thanks

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Hi all.

I can see that a leg is available on the multi city page when a different destination is used but not when the actual destination is used. For eg.

Wanting to book Kathmandu to Hong Kong. This comes up as a leg on a search for Kathmandu to Singapore. However, when I called to book the KTM to HKG the operator said there is no availability.

Is it possible to book these?

Thanks

Sounds like married segments. The airline is willing to sell an award seat from KTM to SIN via HKG, but not sell KTM-HKG non-stop as that’s where they want to make their money from a $$ paying passenger.

An operator shouldn’t be able to beak married segments, with the system preventing them from doing it.

 

[offshore171]

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[jamo96]

Sorry updated the thread title for a related question. Can you remove the first leg of a multi city ticket once it's booked without trouble?

I found a 2 leg multi city itinerary that is available on multi city. But only when I use a dummy leg at the beginning. You cannot put KTM in as the first origin.

Eg.
Dummy leg
KTM-HKG-ICN
ICN-HKG-HAN

I only want the last 2 legs. I've tried calling but they say there aren't any reward seats on it. It doesn't seem right because I've used dummy legs to search in the past and happily booked the other leg over the phone. The dummy leg is with another carrier than the others so can't be a married thing. Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Sorry updated the thread title for a related question. Can you remove the first leg of a multi city ticket once it's booked without trouble?

I found a 2 leg multi city itinerary that is available on multi city. But only when I use a dummy leg at the beginning. You cannot put KTM in as the first origin.

Eg.
Dummy leg
KTM-HKG-ICN
ICN-HKG-HAN

I only want the last 2 legs. I've tried calling but they say there aren't any reward seats on it. It doesn't seem right because I've used dummy legs to search in the past and happily booked the other leg over the phone. The dummy leg is with another carrier than the others so can't be a married thing. Any ideas?
Thanks

Still not 100% clear… the dummy leg comes before the KTM-ICN and ICN-HAN?

And you want to keep the KTM-ICN and ICN-HAN? (when you say the ‘last two legs’, you could also be referring to just ICN-HKG-HAN, which is confusing).

Who is the dummy leg on?

If the sectors aren’t available in and of themselves, you could try asking the phone agent to book the entire itinerary, and then delete the first sector (the dummy) and see what the system says. It may be that you can’t, if QFF has put in place some form of inventory control.

 

[offshore171]

Still not 100% clea

Agree, hard to follow. Need to be super clear on these things if they want useful answers. If it’s hard for us to follow a written explanation here, what chance do the phone operators have?