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Mar 8, 2014 | 10:27 pm

#662

pandaperth

Join Date: Mar 2008

Location: used to be PER, now it's nowhere/eveywhere

Programs: QFF NB, AA GLD

Posts: 3,684

Backtracking between Hawaii and other points in North America is not permitted

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2. FLIGHT APPLICATION/ROUTINGS
...
(a) ...
(b) Travel must be in a continuous forward direction between TC1 - TC2 - TC3. Backtracking within a continent is permitted except as follows:
Backtracking between Hawaii and other points in North America is not permitted.

I've known about this rule for some time, but in planning our next xONEx I ran into an unexpected problem. I wonder what the opinions of the gurus are on this.

Snippet of our proposed itinerary is...

...DOH-DFW-ANC-DFW-HNL,DFW-GIG...

So we're flying DFW-HNL and have a surface segment HNL back to DFW
The online tools will not allow this; it gives the error:

Quote:

90. Travel from North America to Hawaii and back is not permitted. Change those segments in your itinerary

I always thought the rule meant one couldn't fly both to and from Hawaii.

What do people think? Is the tool correctly interpreting the rule do you think?