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Old Oct 5, 2016 | 7:08 am
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wandering_fred
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Originally Posted by OWRTW
Been trying to book with multiple airlines a DONE4 ex-CAI with DOH as the final destination and all of them have been unable to make DOH the final destination. Apparently their booking system is forcing the last segment to head towards CAI.
From my understanding of the rules, one can start and end a trip anywhere in the M.E.

My two questions are:
Has anyone ever faced this issue when booking with an airline?
Is CAI considered part of the M.E.? (When creating the same itinerary on the OW tool I haven't faced any difficulties)

(Tried with both QF and QR)
Thank you!
I would suspect that the AA RTW desk wouldn't have a problem - do you have an inter-area longhaul flight that you can fly with AA?

OTOH, unless you are going to use an award flight to your next stop (or actually stop in DOH) the revenue fares exCAI are going to be a whole lot cheaper than exDOH. Also note that QR flies DOH-CAI as first class cabins so that segment will earn a lot of status (whatevers) on many programs.

Happy wandering

Fred
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