Originally Posted by
serfty
horseguy, I was not sure what the point of your post was. Now on re-reading I get the impression that you wanted to go SIN-GCD and your travel arranger booked this via xHKG with a 2 hour connection. You tip is that you can get for a longer transit if desired.
Yes, it's quite a simple thing to ask your travel arranger to book a later flight (in your case HKG-CDG) to make things far less of a worry. Indeed, I have booked overnight transits in HGK - it's still a xONEx transfer as long as the total scheduled time betwixt your flights is less than 24 Hours. (Any more and it becomes a stopover.)
Right, my point is the rules are different with a xONEx than a normal ticket (which presumably the vast majority of fliers are familiar with "normal" rules, not xONEx rules). For example, AA normally wants most connections done within 4 hours/6 hours international. But on a xONEx, that rule doesn't really matter, as the routing with the longer time will still be perfectly within the fare rules.
For example, say you are flying on a standard ticket (not a xONEx) and you buy a straight A class ticket from AA ONT-xDFW-JFK. On the day I picked, it cost $1297. If I price it as a multi-city trip forcing an 8 hour connection, it suddenly costs $2001 because both segments now get priced as if they were independent of each other because they violate the 4 hour rule.
With an xONEx ticket, the cost stays the same, regardless of how long the stop. That's my point.