my agent usually drops my tix for the airport ticket counter, ie: ti goes internal, but he's with a * carrier, so that's easy to do. The 3 stops thing is a global rule, and has forced me into some interesting routings
oz used to have the 10 day rule, then it didn't, then it did, but could be waived, and so on. It prob. depends as much on if your agent is willing to ticket it as much as the rule. I think minimum stay requirements on such fares are somewhat flexible - ie: if you're going to spend $3k on a ticket, I doubt a carrier will quibble too much if you say you're going to use 8 days instead of 10. Plus you could always ticket for 10, then during the trip change your return dates... i've done that and NEVER been questioned about any time/date rules

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