Originally Posted by serfty
Does this mean that if I start from, say, SWP -> EUROPE via ASIA on two segments with a "transfer without stopover" (e.g. QF127 SYD-HKG, QF29 HKG-LHR 4 hours later), I can come back via NA and do up to 4 segments in ASIA before returning to SWP?
Conversely if I flew "ON A SINGLE FLIGHT NUMBER" QF29 SYD-HKG-LHR, have I then "done" ASIA and its 4 segments and may only return (say via NRT)?
Am I missing something here?
There are greater experts than me, but from my reading of that star file and lots of comments on FlyerTalk, I'd say you are correct on your first statement but not on the second.
In your second scenario you are still just transitting Asia and can use your 4 Asian segments after North America still.
That rule about transiting Asia is there to insure you have to include Asia as one of your xONEx continents.