Star Alliance - Is DEL-EWR Transatlantic For RTW

I did a quick search and couldn't find anything so if this has been addressed previously please point me in the right direction. Is EWR-DEL considered transatlantic for RTW purposes? I went to the RTW website and tried to pull together an itinerary that started in Kansas City - EWR - DEL - SIN - PVG - SFO - MCI but I kept getting an invalid route message saying you needed to have one and only one transPACIFIC crossing??? If I change the itin to go from EWR - FRA - DEL then it's OK, so for some reason it's not considering EWR - DEL as transatlantic and it's considering it transpacific? Has anyone ever done the Continental EWR - DEL as the transatlantic portion? Do I have to actually stop in Europe?

I did a quick search and couldn't find anything so if this has been addressed previously please point me in the right direction. Is EWR-DEL considered transatlantic for RTW purposes? I went to the RTW website and tried to pull together an itinerary that started in Kansas City - EWR - DEL - SIN - PVG - SFO - MCI but I kept getting an invalid route message saying you needed to have one and only one transPACIFIC crossing??? If I change the itin to go from EWR - FRA - DEL then it's OK, so for some reason it's not considering EWR - DEL as transatlantic and it's considering it transpacific? Has anyone ever done the Continental EWR - DEL as the transatlantic portion? Do I have to actually stop in Europe?America (EWR) is in IATA zone 1. Asia (DEL) is in IATA zone 3. Flights between 1 <-> 3 are by definition trans-Pac. Europe (FRA) is in IATA zone 2. Flights between 1 <-> 2 are transatlantic. That's why stopping / changing planes in FRA solves your problem.

Do you have a copy of the xRWSTARx rules? Knowing them makes planning your trip a lot easier.

cheers,

Henry

Do you have a copy of the xRWSTARx rules? Knowing them makes planning your trip a lot easier.Understanding there are *rules* :rolleyes: but they were probably written before EWR-BOM non-stop was considered plausible. I think when the OP goes to book the trip with an agent over the phone they will notice the direction of the flight (east) and want them to continue RTW that way.


SunLover

...*rules*... were probably written before EWR-BOM non-stop was considered plausible. I think when the OP goes to book the trip with an agent over the phone they will notice the direction of the flight (east) and want them to continue RTW that way.Sorry, but you think wrong. EWR-SIN (a rather longer flight than EWR-BOM) has been on the *A timetable (operated by SQ) for a good few years now. Geographically, it matches this one, i.e., IATA 1 > IATA 3. For RTW purposes it is always considered trans-Pac and trans-Pac from America is definitely westbound.

cheers,

Henry

the old TG JFK-BKK flight was considered TPac too even though it basically went over the North Pole.

I think that it might depend on the program to some extent. I know that CO considers EWR-BOM to be TATL for most of their award charts. I had some issues with that on an award recently.