Originally Posted by MAN Flyer
I am just about to ticket a CRTWSTAR2 going BKK-SIN-SYDxMEL-BKK-SIN-MAN etc and the people I am buying the ticket from say they think the previous rule allowing another visit to BKK may have changed.
I must it's the first I've heard and it will be a pain if it has changed.
It's not changed - but I think they have their 2 internationals and start point rules confused. Your itinerary listed above is not legal.
You are permitted 2 International departures and 2 International arrivals per RTW itinerary that starts in Thailand, as it always has been. However, you cannot transit your starting point at any time for any itinerary, as it has always been. If BKK is your start point you cannot go to or through BKK again on the itinerary as an en-route point - doing so means your journey has ended.
To get around it, just start/ticket the journey from say CNX or HKT & transit at BKK on the way to the first SIN visit. That way you will still get your 2 Intnat'l departures from Thailand and the 2 Intnat'l arrivals, but you won't be going back through your start point again when you revisit BKK later. Easy enough to get a cheap BKK-HKT/CNX flight to start the RTW from one of those. You must start and end your RTW in the same country, but it's legal to finish it at a different point in the same country than what your start point was, so there's no problem in ending the RTW at BKK when it started at CNX/HKT.