Originally Posted by
jerry a. laska
From the US State Department website:
The Government of Sudan routinely denies entry visas to travelers whose passports contain visas issued by the Government of Israel or other evidence of travel to Israel, such as exit or entry stamps.
From the Sudan Embassy website(US):
Passport (must be valid for at least six (6) months and should not have Israeli Visas of Immigration stamps affixed to it).
Does this apply to a same-day turn, or just entry into the country? From posts here, it seems an airport entry permit doesn't require much, but I wonder if one might have problems in the airport?
Originally Posted by
checkerboard
Yeah, I totally agree that this should be possible. When buying online, country of origin should serve as country of sale.
Other kinds of discounted fares can sometimes apply residency requirements - but as no such provision exists in the xONEx rules, the billing address of the credit card really should be irrelevant.
As for why AA view this differently, I don't really know, and they didn't really explain. It might be a legitimate exception for ex-KRT tickets, on account of some obscure financial services embargo on Sudan. Or it might just be a more general erroneous reading of the fare rules. In any case, if they refuse to ticket such itineraries - I don't think there's much sense in forcing the point, especially when the option of using a Canadian travel agent provides so easy an alternate mechanism for making the purchase.
In my experience, the AA RTW desk refuses to ticket anything except at the US price, although posts have said that if your credit card has a Canadian address they will ticket it, but subsequent posts said they stopped doing so.
Originally Posted by
checkerboard
In the past, before leaving the rtw.oneworld.com site after clicking on the "book now" button, a small pop-up window would appear with the final price, asking me to be sure that my credit card would accept such a charge. After acknowledging this, I would be directed to the americanairlines.eu.amadeus.com site you mention, where the price/tax breakdown would be shown, and I would input my payment details.
More recently, the small window has stopped appearing, and when I click 'book now,' I'm taken immediately to the americanairlines.eu.amadeus.com site - where, as before, I'm shown the price/tax breakdown.
I tried today, and I'm not able to see any prices or get to the booking page, not just for ex-KRT xONEx. Not sure if it's a problem at my end or theirs.