Sky.is.the.limit, thanks for your answer. I hope you feel we are not ganging up on you, believe me we always like industry experts to chime in.
The only reason we find your answer a bit difficult to believe is that, between us, we buy many of these tickets every year and we are largely speaking from our own experiences.
Originally Posted by
Sky.is.the.limit
those countries have to be within the same sub-region and that’s not the case here (EG is Africa – JO is middle east).
Whether or not that is true geographically (and I won't get into that debate
) the oneworld explorer fares define Egypt to be in the Middle East:
Code:
CONTINENTS ARE DEFINED AS -
-EUROPE/MIDDLE EAST
WHICH CONSISTS OF 2 ZONES 1.EUROPE INCLUDES
ALGERIA/MOROCCO/RUSSIA WEST OF THE URALS AND
TUNISIA.
MIDDLE EAST INCLUDES EGYPT/ LIBYA/SUDAN
-AFRICA
WHICH TOGETHER SHALL COMPRISE TC2
This comes from the Rule Application category in the fare rules.
Someone reported that QF did have some confusion about this the other day, so maybe the ticketing agent was thinking along the same lines as you.
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'm not really sure what you mean.
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.
I agree that would be the selected validating carrier. But an agent can choose a different validating carrier from the selected one if they like, subject to the usual conditions. And moreover if you ticket directly with an airline sales desk, they always put it on their own stock.