Originally Posted by
stex
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
Both of these routes do not have the second visit to Europe/Middle East and so the issue about one visit being a "transfer without stopover" does not arise
And so you merely have the rules of no more than four flight segments in the continent and no more than two stopovers in the continent of origin, which are not issues on either of the routes.
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...
You were obviously way ahead of me on this one
And I was confident that [MENTION=204888]JAXBA[/MENTION] and [MENTION=648695]Calchas[/MENTION] would provide their knowledge^