Originally Posted by christep
It's been discussed to death here. Several years ago a number of people reported getting an Asia transit between SWP and NA ticketed, but the rules themselves have (in some versions) been tightened up, and no-one has reported recently being able to do it. The rest of the quote from the rules is "... OR ON A SINGLE-PLANE DIRECT SERVICE BETWEEN EUROPE AND SOUTHWEST PACIFIC".
Since the rule from AA (iirc) states
* 2 PERMITTED IN ASIA WHEN 1 IS A TRANSIT WITHOUT STOPOVER OR ON DIRECT SINGLE PLANE SERVICE BETWEEN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AND EUROPE.
it gramatically reads that it is permitted as long as it is either a "transit without stopover" or is "Direct single plane service between SWP and EU". I suspect that they mean "transit without stopover between SWP and EU" as well but it doesn't actually state it
Dave