Originally Posted by Sunny Day
Great thread. Routing is like doing puzzles, frustrating but fun. Could use some help here with this 70000 miles AAdvantage Partner Award. AAdvantage desk just called to say this routing is not going to work, I don't understand why.
YEG SEA LAX NRT BKK (stay 1 wk) HKG (stay 1 wk) NRT HNL (stay 3 days) LAX SEA YEG
YEG SEA LAX on Alaska, LAX NRT on AA, NRT BKK on JAL, BKK HKG on CX, HKG NRT HNL on JAL, HNL LAX on AA, LAX SEA YEG on Alaska.
AAdvantage desk says this routing is illegal. "You have to fly across the pacific from HKG to HNL but not through Japan. But no carrier does that route nonstop. I have to fly from final destination HKG to the first N.A Gateway (HNL) over the Pacific without stopping. But you can fly from Asia 2 to North America via Asia 1. They confuse me.
Which is my destination and which is my stopover here, BKK or HKG? How can I make this work? Thanks.
I think the problem here is the multiple stopovers. You can stop at the
first or
last North American gateway, plus the
first or
last foreign gateway. Your first foreign gateway is NRT. Your last foreign gateway is NRT.
The only way that I can see to do this is to change the order of your stopovers. HKG can be a foreign gateway if you fly nonstop between the US and HKG on CX. BKK then becomes your destination. If you route through HNL in the direction that is not the CX nonstop, you can stop there.
If you have to do this in the order you specified (BKK, HKG, HNL), then this won't work as a partner award, it will have to be a Oneworld award.