Originally Posted by christep
No - the restriction on Middle East & "distant Europe/N Africa) is from the UK only (but not just London), so that is OK.
I disagree on stopovers - I believe a surface segment is one stopover. This is not explicit in the OWE Star files, but it is explicit in, for example, the Circle Pacific one.
christep you prompted me to go back and look up the rules again on this, now I see the workaround - thanks