Originally Posted by
pandaperth
Mwenenzi - I have old copies of the rules somewhere, I will dig them out and let you know if Middle East was in earlier versions
Mmmm, seems I don’t have as many old copies of the *ONE* rules as I though I had
The oldest I have is dated 3-Jan-2008
Continents are defined as:
Europe Middle East (including Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan)
…
4(j) Travel between Australia and Europe on a single flight number is considered travelling SW Pacific-Asia-Europe through three continents.
Identical wording in the rules dated 1-Apr-2008
My next rules date from 8-Mar-2012 (!)
Continents are defined as:
*Europe-Middle East (Including Algeria, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Morocco Russia both east and west of the Urals, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan )
…
4(k) Travel between South West Pacific and Europe/Middle East on a single flight number/or by surface is considered travelling SWP-Asia-Europe through three continents.
But even so I think the above does demonstrate that the Middle East was included in the rule well before there was any move by QF to fly Aus-ME non-stop