Originally Posted by littlevoices

Would appreciate people's views on this, I just tried to book the following with AA RTW desk, presuming it would have been a DONE:
HND-SYD-AYQ//AYQ-SYD-PER//PER-HKG//HKG-PEN//PEN-HKG-LAX//LAX-JFK-MIA//MIA-SKB//SKB-MIA-DOH-OSL//OSL-LHR-HND

The agent was great, but it wouldn't price, and then it took a while but in the end the ticketing desk (Whilst I was on the phone) said that it was rejected as I couldn't go back to Asia and do stopovers, this means there must be a nuance to this rule:

Or is it this rule, seems more likely as I guess I have 2 arrivals (PER-HKG, LHR-HND).. but I thought the extra southern continent meant that was allowed?


The lady did say they just basically removed segments until it was allowed, which means it is some nuance to their booking rules. So I think the problem as she explained was, 1) Direct Asia to Australia combined with 2) Back to Asia, having the Penang stopovers. But unfortunately she was pretty unclear as she couldn't really state which rule was the problem. I believe the advice was that she wanted me to do something like Tokyo - Australia - North America - Europe and then do my Asian stopovers later.

Ideas welcome on where the problem is?