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Old Jan 17, 2020 | 2:50 am
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Originally Posted by R2
I'm planning a xONEx ex-Japan. My first flight would be leaving NRT and the last flight arriving to HND. The rule is the following:



Does this phantom surface segment HND-NRT need to be counted as one of my 16 segments? Thanks.
Originally Posted by AlreadyThere
I saw that ernestnywang replied No. Are you sure? IME in every other case I've come across, such segments have in fact counted: IAD-DCA, JFK-LGA, LHR-LGW...
and I very nearly posted the same - but I re-read R2's post, and the question was about a surface segment between the starting point and the final destination; such surface segments do not count toward the 16 segment limit (and IMHO they should be called an open jaw not a surface segment)
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