Originally Posted by
UncleDude
I can assure you that under The IATA Air Ticket Settlement Plan..any tickets even mixed carriers can be exempted from the APD under the 24 hour transit rule. Its just that neither Travel Agents or Airlines can be bothered to do it. The means are there, its just too much of a hassle. I insist and have had it done for me on at 2 occasions.
The isue is not about them being mixed carriers but about the tickets being conjunction tickets. If the tickets are conjunction tickets, this means that there is a single itinerary and contract of carriage and the risk of misconnect shifts from being on the pax to being on the airline.