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B747-437B
You are on two separate tickets. That is why you will not be eligible.
Officially, you must have the best possible connection as well but in practice they rarely (but sometimes do) enforce that.
Thanks, that's pretty much what I expected. One last question: can I go straight to the immigration and buy the 20$ visa on arrival from them? Or do I still need to go to the ET transfer desk and buy the transit package?