Originally Posted by
jerry a. laska
Well, it fails a DONEx test as you have three stopovers in your continent of origin; two in LHR and your surface segment is also a stopover.
I disagree with you here Jerry.
The first pass through LHR (OSL-HEL-LHR-BHD) is a transit
The surface segment BHD-LHR counts as a single stopover
Then at the end, there is another stopover in LHR
So two stopovers in the continent of origin
In your post in the other thread about your LHR-(DOH)-SIN transit being called a stopover in DOH, have you checked availability for LHR-(DOH)-SIN and checked availability for LHR-DOH and DOH-SIN separately? QR uses a lot of married segments but they also have been using unmarried segments when you can only book the through route as if you are stopping in DOH and starting again. There are a few threads in the QR forum about this and it has come up in the AA forum in regard to award tickets. Not saying it is this but you often find unequal availability for these segments depending upon how you search. It may just be a general unfamiliarity with these tickets by whoever you are talking to at BA.
This is interesting. I will head over to the QR forum to learn more.