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Nov 26, 2016 | 2:17 pm

#1784

pandaperth

Join Date: Mar 2008

Location: used to be PER, now it's nowhere/eveywhere

Programs: QFF NB, AA GLD

Posts: 3,684

Quote:

Originally Posted by TiredDoc

Thanks Chris

Sorry just read your previous replies, Im getting some grief with the interpretation of flying the same airline pairs twice on the xONEx fare, mileage monkey says the routing works, but I still need to understand why its the particular CAI-xLHR-oARN-oLHR- segments and the -oHKG-oMLE-oHKG- segments are valid, so I can try to explain to the airline to issue my ticket.

Thanks

CAI-xLHR-oARN-oLHR-oMEX-oMIA-oJFK-oLAX-oHNL-oNRT-oHKG-oMLE-oHKG-oBOM-oDOH-oDXB

Your routing is valid, but you are violating one little rule - "Maximum two stopovers permitted in the continent of origin"
Your continent of origin is Europe/Middle East and you have three stopovers there - ARN, LHR and DOH (your final destination - DXB - does not count as a stopover)
So one of those three will have to become a transit.

From a true FTer point of view however:

you are throwing away one segment - you are allowed 16 and you are using only 15, how wasteful!
you have a tiny little flight DOH-DXB! Why not BOM-AMM/HEL/LHR-DXB? ("/" means "or")