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Old Aug 16, 2006 | 1:30 pm
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SLF,

First of all, thank you for maintaining this tool. I have a question about the most recent change:
Originally Posted by SLF
The 0.95001 version will accept OWE routes with the following:
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using -xAAA or -oXXX to indicate stopover/transit (note the number of stopovers is not checked, this could be a future enhancement)
This implies that "x" is for stopover and "o" is for transit. However, you then use the following example:

ARN-MAD-GUA-MIA-SXM-JFK//DCA-SLC//SFO-JFK-GIG-SCL-xLAX-HKG-MNL-HKG-SIN-HKG-AMS-MAD-ARN

where it seems that "xLAX" indicates a transit. So, which way is it? I would suggest that "x" should be for transit, and "o" should be for stopover since I believe that is the way it shows up on airline tickets (although I don't have any handy to verify this).

FWIW, I've been lurking on this forum for quite a while, and people seem to use "x" sometimes to mean transit and sometimes to mean stopover. Perhaps a standard way of specifying itineraries could be documented and added to the "sticky" so that (hopefully) people will write itineraries in a more consistent manner.
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