Originally Posted by
Sky.is.the.limit
Hi Calchas
Thanks for spotting this,
Re the routing, I agree, O and D may be in different countries but those countries have to be within the same sub-region and that’s not the case here (EG is Africa – JO is middle east). The provision you are referring to (assuming the ones on the first page of the fare sheet) only stands for the counting of stopovers, not for the O and D. I imagine the screenshot you posted came from a GDS or something similar, if you decode the country code you should come up with the same conclusion as me:
EG EGYPT/AFRICA TC2
JO JORDAN/MIDDLE EAST TC2
Re the plating carrier, you’re right all the carriers listed on the fare sheet can potentially issue such fares but it depends on the itinerary as well. If I trust the below rule from the ATPCO, in this specific routing the ticket will have to be on a QR stock
ATPCO validating carrier selection logic:
Round the world
If the itinerary crosses between Traffic Conference (TC) 3 and TC2 and between TC2 and TC1, then the selected validating carrier is the carrier from the first sector that crosses between TC2 and TC1.
http://www.amadeus.com/corp/xml/docu...tion_logic.pdf
WRT Egypt being in Africa
- My understanding is the the fare rules trump any other rules
- And the Oneworld Explorer fare rules explicity define Egypt (plus Libya and Sudan) to be in the Middle East (and they further define Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia to be in Europe
)
- The Global Explorer defines these six countries to be in Europe/Middle East
- And I'm pretty sure FTers have reported getting ticketed itineraries that commence in Egypt and end elsewhere in the ME
WRT what you've written about ATPCO
- this is over my head
- but if I'm reading it correctly, then it says my current Explorer ticket could not have been issued
- because it is on QF stock, and my TC2-TC1 flight was on QR (only the last six flights in the itinerary are on QF, which include a TC1-TC3 flight and a TC3-TC2 flight)