Originally Posted by
LilZeppelin
what would you like to know? had two stop-overs in Europe and one stopover in Middle East. That is one stopover less than allowed in Middle East "zone" (or is it "region"?)
Thank you
LilZeppelin, this is interesting, to me at least.
A follow-up question - what were your initial segments (up to your first port outside of Europe/Middle East), and what are your final segments (from your last port outside of Europe/Middle East).
On my current DONE5 I flew CAI-LHR-BNA... at the start, and will fly NBO-LHR-AMM at the end. So I have two stopovers in the continent of origin (both at LHR) and I have an origin-destination surface segment between CAI and AMM, which is allowed by Rule 4(c), exception (b)
4(c) Travel may originate at any point for which fares are published and must terminate at the same point, except that origin-destination surface segments are permitted as follows:
a. within the country of origin
b. within the Middle East
c. between the United States and Canada
d. between HKG and China
e. between Malaysia and SIN
f. within Africa
g. between Maldives and Sri Lanka/India
When you say you have a stopover in the Middle East, is it really the destination end of an origin/destination surface segment, like mine, or is it something different?
If it is something different then I am intrigued, because I can't see how the rules would allow it. The Oneworld Explorer rules definitely don't allow it. The Global Explorer rules are curious in this regard - they define the six continents and then never refer to them instead referring to 'Regions', which are undefined. I have always assumed this was sloppy drafting and that Region=Continent and in which case a third stopover is not allowed.