Originally Posted by
worldtraveller73
I booked the following last night:
India Award.
MLE (POT) -BLR-DEL (stop)
DEL-IST-YUL-YVR.
Validated no problem with the agent via a check of the route before actually providing the exact flight numbers.
Could it be that AE is eliminating "via Europe" bookings for Asia 1/2?
Not totally..flights from east coast seems all work.
I was suspecting all departure from west coasts must be transpacific to Asia ; however it is not the imposed rules either.
These are the flights that I tried:
Valid: (the airport code herein is the place of stopover/destination/departure, for simplicity I omitted the layover point)
LAX-FRA-HKG-LAX
LAX-LHR-HKG-LAX
Not Valid:
SFO-FRA-HKG-SFO
LAX-IST-HKG-LAX