Originally Posted by
NDFan
Thank you, that is very interesting; I had never heard of Point of Commencement before.
So on an RTW that may have commenced many months ago, is the POC the start of the RTW, or the start of travel on the day of travel?
In the example I was working on, the travellers are starting in OSL in August, but the BKK-SYD segment on SEP 19 is the first segment on that day of travel.
So is the POC OSL or BKK?
Do you know if this POC issue is common or rare? If common, it makes EF searches unreliable.
Thanks,
POC is OSL (the origin of the first segment in the PNR, even if already flown). When you say "start of travel on the day of travel," you are probably referring to Married Segment Control (MSC), where the availabilities of all segments that have less than 24 hours of time between each other (i. e., transits, not stopovers) will be taken into consideration as a whole.
I see POC control becoming more and more common in the past couple of years. Yeah, with POS, POC, and MSC, it is getting more and more difficult to determine the availability unless you are working within the very PNR.
The result I see for QF24/19SEP is the same between POC MAD and POC OSL, so perhaps there are other reasons why it is not available (POS or a genuine blocking against certain other oneworld carriers).