Originally Posted by
AlreadyThere
No. I explicitly asked this question, on several calls to make sure. The rule just says any single flight number from Australia to Europe must count Asia. It doesn't matter whether the flight actually stops in Asia or not.
That's unfortunate. Looks like the only way for me to cover South America and Australia then is to do either EU-SoAm-Aus-Asia or EU-NoAm-Aus-Asia.