The weird thing is NW may have kept that revenue...but unless it was a ff mile ticket, priceline, or other consolidator, they could have just issued a rule 120.20 to another carrier...ie United would take the pax all the way from BOS-TUS at the original face value of the NW ticket. Say for example that part of the ticket was worth $150... NW would have to pay for a FIM/RULE 240 for the DEN-TUS portion which could cost them between 30% and 50% of the full fare...ie probably at least $200. I am probably looking way too far into this. I'm sure it was just a not-so-intelligent NW counter agent who was told by his/her supervisor to always try to avoid using other airlines. Jim On Fri, 17 May 2002, Dennis W Zeuch wrote: > In a message dated 5/17/02 7:22:59 PM !!!First Boot!!!, > jfuoco@lynx.dac.neu.edu writes: > > << why did NW send the BOS-MEM-DEN-TUS?? Could they not shell out > the extra and go BOS-DEN-TUS or something??? >> > They kept 50%+ of the revenue I guess for the BOS MEM DEN portion and if it > would have worked arrival would have been only about an hour difference. > But soooooo many time this stuff just dont work anymore > Dennis >