Originally Posted by number_6
The problem is the lack of North America-Africa flights, and 2nd entry to Europe is not allowed (except for Accra or Lagos origin, which isn't what you want). However CX has ticketed LHR-HKG-JNB-SYD and I believe this is 100% legal (haven't checked recently), so you can do this on an xONE5 eastbound routing. It isn't legal westbound or without including Australia (as you cannot exit Africa otherwise).
How does that get around this rule?
2. TRAVEL MUST BE IN A CONTINUOUS FORWARD
DIRECTION BETWEEN AREA 1-AREA-2-AREA 3.
IIRC Europe/Africa are Area 2 and Asia/SWP are Area 3.