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Hi Guys,

Can you please tell me which (if any) of these is allowed? Just got an agent who was totally unsure and whose supervisor kept changing his/her mind.

1) LAX-ZRH-CDG//NCE-ZRH-NBO(turnaround)-ZRH-LAX

So destination NBO. US-Africa Award. Stopover at CDG. One open jaw. Looks legal to me.

2) LAX-ZRH-CDG(stopover)-ZRH-NBO(turnaround)-ZRH-LAX

3) LAX-ZRH(stopover)-NBO(turnaround)-ZRH-LAX

I figure all three should be legal (though #1 is dubious) and should be 145k per person. The agent said only 3 was legal. I'm convinced 2 is legal, and I also think that the new interpretation of the stopover rules since entry into Star makes #1 legal as well.

Does anyone know for sure?

Cheers,

Steven

Stopovers are supposed to be along the most direct route.

So with a strict interpretation of the rule, #3 is probably the only correct one.

I think the issue with the first two is backtracking to the same city (ZRH). If you just did cdg-nbo it should work. IME the backtrack to the same city kills it ... paid routings as well.

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Originally Posted by mbreuer (Post 12776545)

I think the issue with the first two is backtracking to the same city (ZRH). If you just did cdg-nbo it should work. IME the backtrack to the same city kills it ... paid routings as well.

Yeah, backtracking is definitely the problem here.