Originally Posted by
LAXGUY
I see this thread hasn't had any recent activity but am hoping someone can verify what I was told by an agent today.
I know that you have to keep going east to west or west to east on a RTW award ticket. However I didn't realize--as I was told today--that the "no backtracking" rule applies to connecting flights. In other words, if I start my RTW by flying LAX to DPS (Bali) with a change of planes in Singapore--and without spending 24 hours there--I can't return to SIN because Bali is east of Singapore.
Seems a bit unfair given how many Singapore Air flights transit through SIN. If that indeed is the rule, I don't think it's clearly stated on the SQ website.
If your experience has been different, please comment.
I'll be honest with you - it's pretty much what the agent can do to push things through. I spent close to 60 hours on research and phone calls with SQ. So many different rules, departments, callbacks, some see inventory some don't, no consistency at all. Kept going in circle on the phone.
In the end what worked was sending my dad down to Ion center twice. Managed to book 4 J in a RTW. JFK -> FRA (SQ, stop) -> BUD (LH, stop) -> IST (LH stop) -> SIN (SQ stop) -> MEL (SQ open jaw). SYD -> SIN -> SFO (SQ). So it is possible to backtrack, you just can't stop in SIN the 2nd time as a layover. I had to stress that SYD -> SFO via SIN was not a stopover just the way it was routed.