<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by QF ExLurker:
Is Turkey classed as Middle East? If so, it would be in the restricted list. And does it matter which side of the Bosporus?</font>
Is it but it isn't. From the rules:
33N NOTE 1: NO MORE THAN 2 FREE SEGMENTS BETWEEN THE U.K.
34N AND:
35N .
36N .
37N . ALGERIA ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN BAHRAIN BULGARIA CYPRUS
38N .
39N .
40N .EGYPT GEORGIA GREECE IRAN ISRAEL JORDAN
41N .
42N . KUWAIT LEBANON MACEDONIA MALTA MOROCCO OMAN
43N .
44N .
45N . FUNCHAL,PORTUGAL QATAR ROMANIA RUSSIA SAUDIA ARABIA SYRIA
46N .
47N .
48N .
49N . TUNISIA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UKRAINE YUGOSLAVIA
http://www.hardlink.com/~markdu/OWFi...eExplorer.html
If looking at the BA version of the rules "the Middle East" is added to the end of the list.
http://www.tarom.net/ba/explorerlatest.pdf
But see this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum83/HTML/001993.html
This is why you can do LHR-DXB-LHR-IST-LHR, but not LHR-DXB-LHR-CAI-LHR or CAI-LHR-IST-LHR but not CAI-LHR-DXB-LHR.