Originally Posted by aristoph
In what sense is SYD a stopover and AYQ or CNS not?
If you want to visit and stay AYQ and CNS, they consumes two permitted stopovers in southwest pacific contint.
In that case, you can not stopover at SYD.
x before airport code denotes transit.
As Daren suggested, Global Explorer may be better solution, because price of 4 continents Circle Trip Exploere is (almost?) same as Global Explorer with 34,000 mileage limit.