Originally Posted by
pandaperth
I reported that I had successfully ticketed with AA an itinerary where the transfer without stopover was between Nth America and SWP; and the OP of that other thread later reported that CX has ticketed her/his itinerary where the transfer is between Africa and SWP.
YMMV I guess!
Indeed!! Back when cheapest point of purchase was MRU, I bought several AONE4s which started at MRU and ended at JNB/CPT or
vice versa. (Under the interpretation of the rules used by BA at MRU, you couldn't start and end at the same point. If you started at MRU, you could end at JNB or CPT. Start at JNB/CPT and you could end at MRU.) All included two transits of LHR, clearly not allowed by the rules.
The official rule, 4(e)2, says:
2. Two permitted in Asia when one is a transfer without stopover or on direct single plane service between the Southwest Pacific and Europe.
This is the
only rule which permits two stops in Asia in transit to SWP, although, as
Pandaperth says, and always holds true in things like this, YMMV.