Originally Posted by
Daniel Larusso
Going into the weeds on the details, but you can have some protection on double deadhead trips if you meet with any portion of the scheduled deadhead. Say the company has scheduled MEM-DFW-SAN on AA and you live in OKC for example. If you book OKC-DFW-SAN using the same leg as they did from DFW-SAN you are protected once you get to DFW. I’ve been able to use that far more than I thought I would when it first came about.
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Yes, this has saved me once. But many times, this provision doesn’t apply. What if your deviation is just one leg to your layover? Should we instead deviate to the second leg of the original DH just for the protection on that leg? In essence, unless your deviation just so happens to go through your the city of the second leg on your original DH, its useless.
My question is, what’s the difference whether you catch up to the second leg? Why not protect the entire deviation regardless of whether you catch up to the second leg? This policy is completely inferior to legacy airlines.