Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
Mu understanding of the rules is the same AA desk. The 2nd visit to Asia only as transit (<24hrs)
By having a 2nd stopover is Asia you are not in a "continuous forward direction"
Hmm, aren't Asia and Australia (SWP) both in TC3 though? I am travelling from Europe (TC2) to North America (TC1) to Asia/SWP (TC3) and returning to Europe (TC2) with no backtracking between TCs. The Oneworld Explorer User Guide (section "Second visits to northern hemisphere continents") seems to agree with this interpretation.
I've also just managed to get this priced on the oneworld RTW website, though we all know that doesn't mean much given how buggy it is.
Had no idea the TOS-OSL segment could be a problem -- as you can see, the agent and I only got halfway through the route before we hit a problem
Edit: found
a post by pandaperth that suggests that this is a HUACA kind of situation.
Originally Posted by
pandaperth
Originally Posted by
skunker
Yeah, this is wrong. The rules don't mention anything about north-south travel, just east-west. (...)
The rules also state that 2 entries in Asia are permitted, so something like LAX-NRT-SYD-AKL-HKG... should be allowed as long as the first entry is just transit to SWP.
The requirement that one visit be a transit was removed from the rules some years ago.
Now both visits can have stopovers.