Originally Posted by
stusessions
"Stopover/Open-jaw is permitted once for one city in the itinerary, and cannot be the same city of the point of origin or point of destination." Can someone explain the meaning of this statement added by CX in October 2023 to the rules for multi-carrier rewards? Does it mean " A stopover or open-jaw is permitted only once for any city in the itinerary, except that the origin or final destination cannot be a stopover or open-jaw?" If so, does this prohibit having a final destination that is different from the origin, because a final destination that is a different city from the origin but in the same country would result in an open-jaw?
That is the anti-backtracking rule. It's describing what a stopover cannot be, not what the origin or final destination cannot be. This is necessary as origin and destination are not counted as stopovers or open jaws.
Originally Posted by
stusessions
This is the routing I would like to ticket: ORD - HKG (stopover), HKG - SIN (stopover), SIN - CMB (stopover), CMB - DEL (stopover), DEL - DOH (transit), DOH - CMN (stopover), CMN - DOH (transit), DOH - IAD. Is this not legal because the final flight to IAD instead of ORD makes this an open-jaw at the destination?
Before 2020, the interpretation of origin/destination seems to be same country
oneworld Multi-Carrier Awards - sharing ideas . It did not count as use of an open-jaw.
But recently, it seems to count as use of an open jaw
oneworld Multi-Carrier Awards - sharing ideas .
So on the text of the current T&C, it does not say this open jaw cannot start in one country and end in another.
https://cxplanner.jayliu.net/ uses an interpretation that it needs to return to same country. I think this has been the in-practice interpretation in CX's systems too, happy to be corrected.
But even if it is same country, starting in ORD and ending in IAD is definitely OK, even if this uses one open-jaw (you haven't used any in between origin and destination).