Oneworld4u can you please provide us with the definitive answer on the rule regarding the second transit of Asia on One World Explorer tickets
Are the only additional ones allowed those between SWP and Europe?
The on-line booking tool allows the construction of itineraries (see this
thread) with transits of Asia when travelling between:
SWP and Nth America,
SWP and Africa, and
SWP and Europe
However, FTers have reported that ticketing airlines will not ticket itineraries with a transit between SWP and Nth Am or between SWP and Africa (see this
thread). Indeed, older threads indicate that was has been the generally applied rule for some time.
So, oneworld4u, what transits is the rule meant to allow?
If it is meant to allow all the above transits, then perhaps One World should remind its participant airlines of that.
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The current wording of the rule is:
4. FLIGHT APPLICATION/ROUTINGS
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(e) Only one intercontinental departure and one intercontinental arrival permitted in each continent except as follows:
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2. Two permitted in Asia when one is a transfer without stopover, or on direct single plane service between the Southwest Pacific and Europe.
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The previous wording was:
4. FLIGHT APPLICATION/ROUTINGS
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(e) Only one intercontinental departure and one intercontinental arrival permitted in each continent except as follows:
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2. Two permitted in Asia when one is a transfer without stopover or on direct single plane service between the Southwest Pacific and Europe.
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The difference between the two wordings is the addition of the comma after ‘stopover’ to the current wording.
Why was the wording changed? Was it to change the rule so that all the above transits are allowed? (in which case, IMHO, the wording could be improved).