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Is this a valid RTW

DCA-MIA-SJO-MIA-LHR-HKG-AKL-HKG-ORD-DCA

The planner tool gives me several warnings most of which I understand. The one that concerns me is relative to international arrivals and departures from the country of origin.

I thought Costa Rica is part of North America region but does it still count as an international departure? All stopovers relative to MIA and HKG would be less than 24 hours.

Any help would be appreciated.

It looks valid to me. Rewriting it a bit for clarity

DCA-xMIA-SJO-xMIA-LHR-xHKG-AKL-xHKG-ORD-DCA

with regards to SJO-xMIA-LHR, rule 4(f) states:

Quote:

4(f) Only one international departure and one international arrival from/to the country of origin permitted
EXCEPTION: Two permitted for origin USA when one arrival-departure is a transfer without stopover.
NOTE - travel between USA and Canada is not counted as international.

So your itinerary complies with the exception - origin USA and your second arrival (from SJO) is a transfer without stopover
And just by the way your first visit to MIA can be stopover if you want

with regards to LHR-xHKG-AKL-xHJKG-ORD, rule 4(e) states:

Quote:

4(e) Only one intercontinental departure and one intercontinental arrival permitted in each continent except as
follows:
1. Two permitted in North America when one is a transfer without stopover.
2. Two permitted in Asia when one is a transfer without stopover or on direct single plane service between the
Southwest Pacific and Europe/Middle East.
...

Since both of your visits to the Asian continent are transfers without stopovers, you are certainly complying with the second dot point in this rule
And again just by the way, one of your visits to HKG could be a stopover if you want.

The online tool is very buggy. i suggest trying:

Entering SJO-LHR instead of SJO-MIA-LHR, sometimes the tool manages to handle correctly connections it itself works out
Try AKL-LAX-DCA instead of AKL-HKG-ORD

Finally, did you know BA flies SJO-LGW (London Gatwick) a few days per weeks?

only 2 stopovers is allowed in north America

Quote:

Originally Posted by pbd456 (Post 27024420)

only 2 stopovers is allowed in north America

The OP is complying with that requirement - he said both his passes through MIA are less than 24hrs
So he has stops in SJO and ORD only

(maybe I wasn't complying when I said he could stop in MIA the first time if he wanted to:o)