<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RichardMEL:
It just brings ow into line with Star, except that their 20 is far more stingy than Star's 28. It's to stop our little status credit/mileage run use of these fares. D'OH!
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I've always been able to add some unnecessary segments beyond 20 but still within 29K miles in order to see friends in various places. If *A were to reduce the segment limit from 28 to 20, I would probably buy fewer RTWs.
However, since *A just tightened up the RTW rules in other ways (and not that longer ago imposed the 28 segment rule), I don't anticipate any more changes any time soon.
There may be one person employed by *A whose sole job is to analyze RTW routings that are actually flown in search of apparent mileage/segment/status runs and then think of how the rules can be changed to prevent such runs while least inconveniencing others. I think that's the result they've obtained with the last two sets of rule changes. The RWSTAR fares are no longer open to wild runs, but still offer a lot of flexibility for someone who want to go RTW.
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