Originally Posted by
Himeno
Has there been recent changes to the other oneworld products? The general info text on the oneworld site about the xASnn now says surface sectors count as flight sectors. This wasn't the case before. The xASnn has an 8 flight sector limit, but prior uses have had surface sectors between airports (eg HND-NRT) not count towards the 8 flight limit, but did count to the 16 sectors e-ticket limit.
The Circle Asia & South West Pacific fare is not one I keep abreast of
I see what you saying about the form of words on the
relevant web page
It is note 4 under the Terms and Conditions
4. Travel between two airports by surface transportation is at the passenger's expense and counts as one flight segment. Surface sectors must be included in the total mileage.
So, my view is that since words on a web page are NOT part of the fare rules, we need to look at the fare rules to see what they say.
In ExpertFlyer, I looked at a random fare (a CX DAS17 ex-SYD)
and it says nothing of the sort. It just says
MAXIMUM OF 8 FLIGHT SEGMENTS ARE PERMITTED FOR THE ENTIRE JOURNEY.
The Creation Date of the rule is 20-Dec-2016, so there has been no recent change to it.
The date at the bottom of the relevant web page is 1-May-2014. So I don't know if it has been updated recently, and they forgot to update the date of the page. But I don't remember the page saying surface segments count as flight segments when I last looked at the page (whenever that was!)