[flyhi152]

By the way: you don't even have to travel with different airline and still be forced to purchase two different tickets to get to your destination: for example

1.) Jet Blue flies to Phoenix and Bogota, yet if you want to go from Phoenix to Bogota you will have to buy two separate tickets from them. I called them several times to find out why and the only answer they had was "we can't send the luggage directly from PHX to BOG"

2.) Condor flies to Las Vegas (LAS) and to Palma de Mallorca (PMI). But if you wanted to go from Las Vegas to Mallorca you would have to purchase 2 separate tickets. Probably there are numerous other examples. The whole airline industry and their rules are set up the way that if something goes wrong it is the passenger's loss, and the airline does not have to pay for any damages.