Originally Posted by
pandaperth
There are potentially a number of issues I see:
[*]The rule for a second visit to Europe/Middle East, back when your purchased your ticket (last November?), required that one of the visits be a transfer without stopover.
When Europe/Middle East is your continent of origin, then this means the first return to the continent (your NRT-MAD-JNB) must be the transit without stopover visit, in MAD; therefore it must be ...xNRT-xMAD-JNB...
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, it was booked and ticketed in 11/2016. I do need to make a stopover in MAD... so would either of these two alternative routings fix the issue (and/or raise new ones)?
CAI-(xAMM)-xDOH-JFK-LAX-xDFW-JFK-SCL-xLAX-MEL-NRT-CMB-NRT-CGK-HKG-JNB-MAD-DOH
[or]
CAI-(xAMM)-xDOH-JFK-LAX-xDFW-JFK-SCL-xJFK-HKG-NRT-CMB-NRT-MEL-xHKG-JNB-MAD-DOH
[*]Your proposed DONE6 is 17 segments, one more than the allowed 16 - this is because of your re-route CAI-xAMM-DOH, which was presumably originally CAI-DOH and had to be re-routed due to the Egyptian government's newish restrictions on direct flights to DOH
BUT - how many segments did your original DONE4 have?
If it was less than 16 segments, then the airline might claim that one of your unused segments was used for the extra segment at the beginning
Note that this is just my opinion, which may well be wrong - maybe an FTer with good ticketing knowledge (such as [MENTION=204888]JAXBA[/MENTION] or [MENTION=648695]Calchas[/MENTION]) can chime in
Correct, I was protected due to the QR ban in the region. I had full 16 segments in my original DONE4. At the time of the involuntary re-routing, AA RTW split the original DONE4 e-ticket and created a new one only for the CAI-xAMM-xDOH-JFK segments. They kept the original e-ticket for the remaining segments. They did this to avoid problems with future re-issues and maybe to bypass the 16 segment e-ticket limit that I have read about in other OW threads. AA documented all of this in the PNR notes. I have spoken several times with them over the past weeks and they never brought it up. It shouldn't be a problem in this particular case...