Originally Posted by
Himeno
Most of the time. Depending on who you get to book the ticket, some agents read the ticket rules to allow NRT,HND (etc) as not taking a segment.
The surface-segment/co-terminal thing is due to a limitation of the e-ticketing software, no? In the case of OneWorld Visit South America Airpass they limit to 16 for that reason, but let you add arbitrarily more flights after flying some off.