'Canadian exception'' for oneworld RTWs ELIMINATED
 

I have just been on the phone with a supervisor at the AA RTW desk trying to get my ex-CAI DONE4 rated for ticketing in Canada. He informed me that the exception has been eliminated, effective 1 November. And sure enough, the latest version of the rule sheet, dated 1 November, no longer contains this loophole.

http://www.oneworld.com/oneworld/......rer_1Nov12.pdf

cheers,

Henry

Anybody know a good travel agent in Egypt?

Many of us have used emeco (the AA GSA) for our ex-CAI tickets.
From aa.com:
You can also do a search on this forum for additional info.

I have a vague memory of the exception having something to do with meeting Canadian law requirements. OTOH, if it's gone, it's gone.

Maybe it was costing too much and have decided to "pretend" the legal requirement does not exist.

Canada isn't going to be too happy with that. It was in there due to Canadian laws...
The within EEC clause is also gone.

"Middle East" has been added to
(k) Travel between South West Pacific and Europe/Middle East on a single flight number/or by surface is considered travelling SWP-Asia-Europe/Middle East through three continents.

They had better damn well fix the online tool then.

I wonder how much business they will lose due to the removal of that exception?

If by EEC clause, you are referring to the ECAA (European Common Aviation Area) clause, it's till there. From the rules:

I'm guessing this is to account for the eventual QF Australia-DXB-Europe routes.

Indeed. We were already getting our hopes up that a xONE3 would be possible. Oneworld continues to try and make this product unusable.

Well at least they performed their root cause analysis over the KRT fares effectively (e.g. changing KRT to an appropriately valued USD fare, thereby removing further Sudanese pound currency fluctuations, and at the same time removing the ticketing loophole that allowed these tickets!).

I am in the middle of planning my first xONEx. In the past I have done a fair number of *A RTWs. *A used to have the Canadian exception too. Then, at one point, the entire country-of-origin, country-of-sale wording was dropped from the rules; in 2008 I was able to buy and ticket in Finland an ex-NRT itinerary at the Japanese price. I haven't had occasion to check the *A rules for a while but looking at the latest version now, I see that the country-of-origin, country-of-sale restrictions are back -- but without the Canadian exception.

Makes the whole 'due to Canadian law' explanation (which was my understanding too) kind of empty. Maybe the free-trade modernisers in Canada changed the law?

cheers,

Henry

My recollection, from when I was pricing up some *A RTWs back in 2010 does not agree with you. Checking in KVS the current wording (for a CRWSTAR3 ticket) matches my recollection, namely:The important difference between this wording and the wording in Oneworld ticket rules is that *A rules do NOT then go one to state

Also, IMHO the wording of the *A rule is much clearer that the wording of the OW rule, which is:So for countries that do not have a local currency fare (for example Sth America and some African countries where the fares are published in USD), the conversion does not take place?
And for such fares, the issue of the fare perhaps being lower than in the country of sale does not arise?

This is nothing new
I have a copy of the rules from Dec-2007 and most of this rule was there then
In about Nov-2010 the words "/or by surface" were added - see post #119 in this thread



IIRC there has been some discussion* on whether this rule will change when QF starts flying non-stop MEL/SYD-DXB-LHR. It would seem pretty hard to claim this is flying via Asia. But no doubt that's what QF will want:rolleyes:
*in the relevant thread in the QF forum; the discussion was more focussed on whether xONE3 fares will be able to include SWP

Yes, you're right: it was the 'whichever is higher' clause that was dropped, which obviated the Canadian exception. I just remember being pleased in '08 about being able to get all the ducks in a row while still at home. And as you note, the *A RTW rules still allow that.

cheers,

Henry

On the Canada Exception itself
My earliest (Dec-2007) copy of the rules had these words at the end of Clause 15 - bolded and underlined as shownSo perhaps that's when they were added to the rules
And in Nov-2012 they were removed:(

Are the published fares for Sudan now in USD?

(I can only see such fares by using the KVS tools, and in that I must specify which currency I want the tool to use. AFAIK there is no way to get KVS to show the 'base' currency)