Originally Posted by
Kiwi Flyer
Both airports at start and end of a surface segment get a stopover counted against them, although it only counts 1 for total stopovers on the ticket. Thus you cannot have 2 surface segments involving the same city, or 1 surface segment + an additional stopover.
They are so mean!

I guess they know what they are doing, trying to avoid having people pack several trips in one RTW... BTW, you would be very disappointed with the RTW I am about to book - under 26000 miles used on a CRWSTAR1... but then, there are other constraints than the 29,000 miles limit!