Originally Posted by
jerry a. laska
And again in 2004, at which time a poster gave a definitive answer that all the coterminals listed for that city/metropolitan area would count as routing through the point of origin.
That was when coterminals still counted as a single stop (ie, SYD-NRT/HND-ITM was 2 sectors, not 3 as now). It may have changed ~07/08 when they removed the 'coterminal' allowance from the rules.