Originally Posted by
christep
Correct. Although I think you have misunderstood the notation.
As written you would essentially be going non-stop from HKG to JFK by a very roundabout route with transits at each intermediate point. Stopovers are denoted by o rather than x.
Having said that, I did once do HKG-xJFK-xYVR-xDFW-xANC-xDFW-xORD-xLAX-xLHR-xCAI-xLHR-HEL (32660 miles in 108 hours), so you may be correct!
Thanks, I understand the notation, x = <24 hour transit which is what I meant and intended. So in my example, origin to destination would be HKG to JFK.
o = stop (>24 hours), which is sometimes (often) left out.