I have got my OWE ticket and haven't noticed some of the small details until today.

The Oneworld Explorer only allows you to have a "stopover" in a city only once, but you can "transit" it as many times as your routing/segments permits.

It seems like that CX did not put an "X" beside "Hong Kong" on the ticket for my "2 transits" in Hong Kong.

Should be NYC X/HKG ABC HKG DEF X/HKG LON, but they ticketed it as NYC HKG ABC HKG DEF HKG LON.

Since CX is a Hong Kong based airline, does anyone suppose they might be trying to "promote" Hong Kong by doing this (tempting their pax to stay in HKG a few more times and spend more money to help the HKG economy)?

Also, they seem to have forgot the "X" on a couple of my other segments when they are clearly connections and not stopovers(will there be problems with the other airlines such as collecting taxes from me that one has to pay for stopovers even though I wont' be doing a stopover and only a transit?).

Another thing is that the only real "restriction" I saw printed on the ticket is "ONEWORLD EXPLORER SPECIAL CONDITIONS APPLY" under "endorsements" instead of the usual "VALID AA AY BA CX EI IB QF ...ETC." Will the other carriers actually take the time to pull up the fare rules and try to read it line by line if I have to make changes to my ticket?




[This message has been edited by daniellam (edited 08-19-2002).]