Originally Posted by TomT
Hi all:
On above miss....................I keep getting mexed up with the HKG stop/transit........BKK- HKG has to be counted as one seg. no matter where I go...correct? If I went on to NRT....that is my 2 seg in Asia...correct?
Then my aim is to get out of Asia and to S.P......so if I say I want to go NRT-SYD....in one door out the other in HKG and on to SYD...that works...correct?
Now what if I wanted BKK-HKG-PEK-Auckland...(I know I have to go back to HKG...but is that a freebee?????)
I have looked for the answer in serch, etc and seem to be lost.......
Any help....Thanks
Tom
TomT
Basically it works like this - a segment is a single flight number between two points (whether or not it stops somewhere on the way) - eg BKK-NRT is one segment if CX222 BKK-HKG and keeps going as CX222 HKG-NRT. If on the other hand BKK-HKG is CX222 and HKG-NRT is CX223 that's 2 segments.
In your example: you can go NRT-SYD on QF as it is a direct flight. If you go via HKG (NRT-HKG-SYD) that's two segments as there is no single flight number that travels that route and you will change metal and flight #s in HKG.
BKK-HKG-PEK-AKL works but it counts as 4 segments in Asia - BKK-HKG-PEK-HKG-AKL (ie there is not direct PEK-AKL flight). Remember the flight exiting and entering a region/continent does not count towards the limit for either the departing nor the arriving continent.
I thought you were set on your Asia itin - BKK-HKG-NRTx-HKG-MNLx-SYD (x=stopover).