Originally Posted by
christep
....I wonder if the difficulty they are having is not surface sectors per se but the "stopover in the continent of origin" rule. They may be counting three (PEK, SIN, HKG) but in fact a surface segment is only one stopover not two...
I agree, but also know that it would not be the first time surface sectors
in the continent of origin are counted as two stops per surface sector. There are a few posts in the archive in this regard (and also others where this was not a problem, of course).