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Old Sep 14, 2011 | 1:28 am
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LizzyDragon84
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Originally Posted by number_6
Absolutely not, though often it happens to be the longest segment so it can give that impression! In short the MSC is the airline flying the sector that is the first to cross an IATA area or subarea, and for trips within a single IATA area the airline flying the first international sector ... it is of course more complicated than that. For greater detail see for example http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...effect-qf.html
Good grief! Thanks for the clarification. It makes me glad that I'm usually able to carry-on for most of my trips- trying to make heads or tails of the MSC rules is making my head spin.

But it looks like for garyschmitt, the US exception will apply to him if the US is his destination, so whatever the first operating carrier is sets the rules. Hopefully that clears things up for you, Gary.
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