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Old Aug 28, 2025 | 5:56 am
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Originally Posted by pandaperth
Well I don't know what you and your agent are doing wrong, or what I'm doing right, but I got the following itinerary to price up in the tool:

All in cost NOK74,438

The tool offered some strange choices, so I had to be careful that I got just what I wanted.
I will send you (dvs7310) a PM with more detail
Ah sorry, indeed that one is pricing ok, I was using it to try to troubleshoot. The one I want is the top one, OSL-xDOH-NRT... etc. I can't test that in the tool because the QR segment.

I'm going to try it later just to test with LHR-xAMM-BKK or LHR-xMCT-BKK and adjust things in Asia just to see what error I get since that replicates what I actually am trying to do.

Europe point of origin, transit Middle East to Asia. Continue Asia and North America journey, North America to Africa via DOH (middle east), then back to Europe (Morocco or would be satisfied with Portugal), and intra Europe via the middle east.

We think it's something with the many DOH transits and one stopover. But I have seen other people's itineraries that had DOH on all of their intra Europe. But they probably didn't have Africa on it.

That's the mystery, why is it requiring me to have a connection in Europe (but not the middle east) on either the first or last leg, but not not allowing both in the middle east?

EDIT: I've done a bit of testing on this now, and it seems it's definitely something with the Europe / Middle East distinction. I can still get it to price when I shift the Asia portion, it seems fine if I go directly Europe to Asia (example LHR-BKK instead of LHR-MCT-BKK) but it won't price if I'm transiting the middle east (leaving the final segments the same JNB-DOH-CMN-DOH-starting point), which I thought and many other people here thought that's treated as the same zone. I've not violating stopover limits in the continent of origin, and I'm not violating segment limits. So this is really a new one I've never seen on this forum yet.

I'm wondering if I'm going to have to change this to an Asian point of origin. I can't do ex-TYO because I need 2x long stopovers in TYO. But I'm also not sure I can get nearly the same mileage earned from any of the lower priced POO's in Asia....

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