{"id":2400,"date":"2016-03-31T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T00:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2016-03-31T20:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T00:46:16","slug":"with-this-new-fare-combinability-rule-from-some-of-the-airlines-is-there-a-formula-for-when-it-is-better-to-take-the-split-tickets-vs-one-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/with-this-new-fare-combinability-rule-from-some-of-the-airlines-is-there-a-formula-for-when-it-is-better-to-take-the-split-tickets-vs-one-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"With this new fare combinability rule from some of the airlines is there a formula for when it is better to take the split tickets vs one ticket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a question each client, and sometimes each traveler, will need to make for themselves. With the new rule, certain types of trips are less expensive when booked as a series of one-way tickets instead of as one ticket with all flights combined. Savings varies, but we are regularly seeing examples of as much as $1500. The risk is that each individual ticket will have its own $200 change fee. So if you accept three one-way tickets instead of one ticket with two stops and a return, you run the risk of having $600 in change fees. When the savings exceeds the potential risk it&#8217;s a no-brainer &#8211; take the savings and run. When that&#8217;s not the case a little more thought is needed. It might help to know that as an average, only about 15% of tickets are changed after they are purchased. Unless a particular trip is iffy to begin with, having an 85% chance of all savings and no risk is a pretty good deal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a question each client, and sometimes each traveler, will need to make for themselves. With the new rule, certain types of trips are less expensive when booked as a series of one-way tickets instead of as one ticket with all flights combined. Savings varies, but we are regularly seeing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}