Originally Posted by
2cylinderdriver
2) You can get to SFO however you like, but once you deviate on leg 1, you are responsible for booking the ticket (on the scheduled flight from SFO-HKG). Book the ticket before you deviate.
3) do not select leg 2 to deviate and the GT may still be waiting on the scheduled leg. It has worked for me, since they give you the option to check deviation by leg.
4) if you arrive in SFO in time to catch the scheduled leg, you are "kind of" protected, it is currently an unwritten rule from the JL era that you should be afforded the rights and protections of being on the scheduled pairing at that point. If something goes awry, scheduling may be more help than "you deviated, call us from XXX!).
1) Is this still the case on front-end deviations? Has anyone done it recently?
DH MEM-DFW, layover, DH DFW-NRT: will VIPS let you just cnx the MEM-DFW leg and you take the scheduled DH at DFW for DFW-NRT (book DFW-NRT before deviating on the 1st leg)?
2) If the front-end DHs are just a connection DH MEM-ATL, DH ATL-CDG can you do the same thing or is it all cnxed once you deviate? Is there anyway to do a partial deviation on this?
Partial deviation thread