Originally Posted by
SQ421
Now, am I right in understanding that if the first entry into Asia is a transit then the itinerary is a valid one?
FWIW, mileage monkey says Yes.
Yes - your understanding is right (thought to be pedantic - it's as long as one of your entries into Asia is a transit, it can be the second entry)
I just plugged your itinerary into the tool, and got the same errors as you
then as soon as I selected the first two flights, with a <24 stay in HKG, the errors disappeared
Prior to the tool being available there were reports of the Asian transit being disallowed when the transit was not SWP-Europe. The wording of the rule is a bit ambiguous:
4(e) Only one intercontinental departure and one intercontinental arrival permitted in each continent except as follows:
1. ...
2. Two permitted in Asia when one is a transfer without stopover or on direct single plane service between the Southwest Pacific and Europe.
3. ...
But the tool allows any transit such as - yours which is SWP-Nth Am - and also Africa-SWP