Originally Posted by
global_happy_traveller
Using the YVR-FRA-YVR example.....What constitutes a violation of the minimum stay restriction?
(a) Depart the location back to the origin earlier (either on the same/different ticket)
(b) Depart the location to another place on the same continent as the origin? In this case lets say YYC, YYZ, EWR, IAH etc...
(c) Depart the location to another country within the same continent as the destination (VCE, ZRH, MUC, CDG, LHR, EDI)
(d) Depart the location to another part of the world like SIN, HKG, SYD, BNE, AKL.
If (b), (c) and (d) are also a violation then i can see many violating such rules!
In the case of your example, only (a) would constitute a violation of the rules, and this would only be the case if a separate ticket was used. If the same ticket were used, there wouldn't be any issues because the OP would have had to pay the required change fees and/or fare differences (assuming there were any restrictions on the ticket).
Agree about (b), (c), and (d), this happens all the time, and is not the same as returning back to the point of origin.
CN.