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Old Feb 25, 2012 | 2:42 am
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Originally Posted by andreiz
Thanks, everyone. Been playing around more with ExpertFlyer and came upon a fare with a bunch of routing rules similar to this:

SFO-CO/NZ/UA-HNL-AKL-NPE/NPL/ROT/TUO-WLG-BHE/NSN-CHC-DUD/ZQN-CHC/WLG-AKL-SYD

Does this mean that all the segments connected by dashes have to be taken, or can I delete segments? I entered "SFO :: HNL WLG AKL SYD /alliance star-alliance" into ITA but it said it couldn't find any flights in a whole month, so I wonder if I'm reading the fare correctly.
A routing rule that specifies connecting cities in that manner means the connections are optional and you can delete as many as you want. It doesn't appear there are any flights from HNL to WLG, so that's why your routing didn't work in ITA. Haven't tried it, but I'd guess HNL-AKL-WLG-SYD should work, since there are flights on all those city pairs.
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