<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Gaza:
I should be able to give a definitive answer on the Australia rule soon. The TA in Joburg has submitted it to BA for checking.</font>
Agreeing with the premise
3544quebec's post, anything you get back from BA is unlikely to be "definitive". Even other BA tarriff people will interpret it in a slightly different way.
Besides, should you not get a favourable go, get them to try again. I was organising a RTW for my boss PER-CGK.....LAX-MEL-ADL-MEL-SYD-PER
He lived in Adelaide so was going to long term stop there (he's actually yet to fly ADL-MEL-SYD-PER I think) so I was just adding on the extra stuff to use up the extra segments should he want to take advantage of them later. QF refused indicating that it would not be allowed. I told our travel agent that the refusal made no sense on the routing and that she should try again. She eventually agreed with me and convinced QF that they too were wrong.
Bers 1, QF 0.
Admittedly they did make him stopover in MEL as part of LAX-MEL-ADL because it was the int'l gateway and he HAD to stopover there (stay >24 hours). That made no sense but it was easily gotten around by going to the airport and standbying for an earlier flight which he was easily moved onto.
No doubt we can all try a similar routing and get different answer from each of our local carriers.