Originally Posted by
globalste
I was wondering what all the fuss was about because i have only just started using the OW planner this last week - i was confused that having a flight from Capetown to HKG was classed as 2 segments bc i dont have any option but to go via Jo'Burg but i just thought it was part of the rules.
Just means you have to be more creative i guess, i'll now be flying LHR-JHB and then jumping a cheap flight/train to Capetown thereby saving a segment (which i will be using longhaul)
It has always been true that the segments needed to get from A to B each count. One segment = one coupon, so if e.g. Cathay chose to serve CPT via JNB using a single flight number, you'd have the option of flying the route as one segment.