Originally Posted by
ozvirginuk
...Apparently this is not allowed, as I'd be "stopping" in Sydney twice in the itinerary, and you're only allowed to stop in any city once. Advice I was given was to fly to a different Australian port, but there are no others with an F service from HKG.
I have gone back them and said what if I 'transit' through Sydney on the way back, ie fly HKG-SYD on QF in F, then be ticketed to connect to AKL (maybe on a flight much later that day). Would that be allowed? I could then just check-in for the HKG-SYD, and "miss" the connection.
Does this work? Is it possible?? Advice greatly appreciated.
Certainly it will work. Either one of your Sydney stops must be strictly less than 24hrs - 23:59 is OK, 24:00 is not OK
I suggest you schedule the final SYD-AKL flight to be as close as possible to 24hrs after your scheduled arrival into Sydney from HKG - that way there will be no questions asked when you request that your bags be tagged through to SYD only, not AKL
PS - forgot to mention, when I plug in a RTW in the Oneworld planner, it has no issue with me "stopping" in Sydney twice. I thought the principle for RTW and CIR would have been fairly similar.
Cheers
Ozvirginuk
The rules of the two tickets are quite different
Amongst other differences, the Oneworld Explorer has no restriction on multiple stopovers at the same city (I have heard tell of someone who stopped over in NYC four times on a Oneworld Explorer ...jfk-bgi-jfk-nas-jfk-bda-jfk... - it was his hometown after all
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