Originally Posted by
lowside67
Maybe I am confusing an official published route... that route that I posted which is YVR-LHR-CAI-JNB is an Air Canada/EgyptAir route that can be booked through Air Canada's website just using YVR-JNB (not multi-city). Would that make it an official published route?
Not necessarily. A published route isn't necessarily the one on the website - and in fact, I wound bet is often not even easily bookable (how many people reasonably book LAX-SYD by going LAX-NRT-SIN-SYD?). Rather, these must be looked up against a database.