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Nov 6, 2014 | 5:18 pm

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linglingfool

Join Date: Nov 2008

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Not sure if this thread is only supposed to be about MPM or routing in general, but here goes:

The transfers section of a fare rule isn't one I usually pay attention to, as I try to avoid connections as much as possible. However, I'm trying to understand these rules, with what I believe are the relevant highlighted sections below:

Code:

1 TRANSFERS PERMITTED IN EACH DIRECTION.
         1 PERMITTED IN EUROPE IN EACH DIRECTION.
   AND - 1 TRANSFERS PERMITTED IN EACH DIRECTION.
               1 PERMITTED VIA AA ONLY IN EUROPE IN EACH
              DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED BETWEEN AA AND BA IN EUROPE IN
              EACH DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED BETWEEN AA AND IB IN EUROPE IN
              EACH DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED VIA BA ONLY IN EUROPE IN EACH
              DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED BETWEEN BA AND IB IN EUROPE IN
              EACH DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED VIA IB ONLY IN EUROPE IN EACH
              DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED BETWEEN AA AND AY IN EUROPE IN
              EACH DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED VIA AY ONLY IN EUROPE IN EACH
              DIRECTION.
   AND - 2 TRANSFERS PERMITTED IN EACH DIRECTION.
               1 PERMITTED BETWEEN AA/BA/IB/US AND AS IN
              LAX/PDX/SEA IN EACH DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED BETWEEN AA/BA/IB/US AND HA IN
              HAWAII IN EACH DIRECTION
               2 PERMITTED VIA AA/AY/BA/IB/US ONLY IN
              NORTH AMERICA IN EACH DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED BETWEEN AA/BA AND WS IN CANADA
              IN EACH DIRECTION
               1 PERMITTED BETWEEN AA/BA/IB/US AND AM IN
              MEXICO IN EACH DIRECTION.

I'm having a hard time reconciling the statement that only one transfer is allowed at the beginning with the fact that 2 are allowed further down. Does this mean that ORD-XXX-MAD-YYY would be a valid routing under these rules, where XXX is a NA gateway with an IB flight to MAD and YYY is a city served by IB?

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