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I saw this question regarding trying to book multiple people in different classes, but I was wondering whether it's possible for one person to book a mixed ticket on a single itinerary.

As a particular example, I'm probably going to be flying from the U.S. to Cebu, Philippines next summer. Since no U.S. airlines fly to Cebu and no airlines that fly to Cebu fly to my home airport, I'm considering the following route:

Delta: BNA->DTW->ICN Korean Air: ICN->CEB

Korean Air: CEB->ICN Delta: ICN->DTW->BNA

I'm wondering whether it's possible to book a single ticket with Business class (i.e. BusinessElite/Delta One) on the Delta portion and economy on the Korean Air portion.

The ticketing carrier would ideally be Delta in this case.

I definitely would want my bags checked all the way through from Nashville to Cebu and also want to make sure that I'm protected from losing my booking on one airline in the event that a previous flight on the other airline got delayed. However, I'd rather not pay the extra $1,000 to upgrade the ICN->CEB->ICN portion on Korean Air if it can be avoided. The lie-flat bed seats would definitely be nice on the DTW->ICN leg, but it's not really worth the extra cost on the relatively short hop from Seoul to Cebu and back in my case, especially since the difference in comfort between economy and business seats is dramatically less on Korean Air than it is on Delta.

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Yes, it's entirely possible, and since Delta and Korean are both in Skyteam the itinerary is quite feasible. However...

  • Tickets like these are usually impossible to book online, you will need to book this directly with the airline or a travel agent. (Update: There are exceptions, and Delta appears to be one of them!)
  • While price difference between economy and business for ICN-CEB alone may well be $1000, if you're travelling all of BNA-DTW-ICN in business class, the cost difference for upgrading the final ICN-DEB leg as well is likely to be lot less than that. Due to the way fare pricing works, regional flights attached to long-hauls are often close to free, occasionally even cheaper than a flight terminating at the hub.
  • For trips where you only want to upgrade a few segments, buying the whole trip in economy and using miles to upgrade can be very cost effective.
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