Originally Posted by
SDandi
Fantastic!! Pandaperth- do you remember helping me out with my ex-MPM a few years ago? I was a disaster. I hope you are proud of your student's progress
TBH I didn't remember you - but now I've checked my old PMs I do remember you
Okay- thank you! The only AA flight I saw for OSL-LAX is on BA and then AA, so I would incur more of those pesky fuel fines. But maybe not as much if it's short haul?
Oneworld TATL fuel fines are a rip-off. AA and the Oneworld European Carriers (BA, AY and IB) operate a JBV (Joint Business Venture = a government-sanctioned cartel). They fix prices, share revenue and all charge the same fuel fines between A-and-B.
I have been checking on
The Matrix and:
- the fuel fine for OSL-xHEL-LAX is USD161. It matters not which oneworld airline is the marketing carrier for the flights.
- the fuel fine for OSL-xLHR-LAX is actually lower, at USD136.20
I thought I could only land at LAX on my North America routing one time. And, the ORD stoppover would put me at 17 segments, right?
As [MENTION=40177]anabolism[/MENTION] said -there is no restriction on multiple stopovers at any point (other than the point of origin that is)
And anyway, your itinerary had you landing there twice already - from HEL and from PVR
Originally Posted by
SDandi
Ideally, I would like to get back to Southern California via LAX or SAN, but thought that this rule restricts me: Americas - "Within North America, only one transcontinental flight is allowed between selected cities on the East and West Coasts. "Transcontinental" is defined as a flight between one of ATL/BWI/BOS/CLT/FLL/BDL/MIA/EWR/NYC/ORL/PHL/PIT/SJU/RDU/TPA/YYZ/WAS/PBI and one of LAS/LGB/LAX/OAK/PHX/PDX/SAN/SFO/SJC/SNA/SEA/YVR. "
I just put in DFW because it's not on the above airport list and it is direct from JFK, so it doesn't eat up another segment.
You are allowed up to six flight segments in North America, but only one of them can a trans-continental flight. The others can be anything you like (except for restrictions on flights to/from Alaska and Hawaii)
So in your itinerary - your LAX-JFK flight is your one allowed trans-continental flight, and say JFK-ORD followed by ORD-LAX are just another two of your allowed six flights in the continent
Since you seem to have some doubt, I will just confirm that your itinerary has 16 segments, which is the maximum allowed - so there is no problem there
It has 14 flight segments
and two surface segments (DFW-LAX and DPS-SIN)
Changing DFW-LAX to be a flight segment would not affect the overall count of 16 segments and would increase your Nth American flight segment count to 5, so still within the allowed max of six
BTW Qantas subsidiary JQ (Jetstar) flies between DPS and SIN
I wouldn't stay in NBO- I want to go to Tanzania and none of the One World carriers fly into DAR.
QR flies from DOH to three destinations in Tanzania - DAR, ZNZ and JRO. JRO is close to a number of game parks and of course to Kilimanjaro itself.