Originally Posted by pandaperth

To address your point - my understanding is that the rule has been "if you touch it you pay for it". So BA's Europe-SWP (i.e LHR-SYD) flights do touch Asia and so you pay for Asia. But QR's DOH-PER is non-stop (as are its DOH-MEL flight and QF's DXB-SYD/MEL flights). IMHO, there is no justification for being charged for Asia on those flights.