Overnight stay requirement
 

Is it a requirement to stop overnight on each continent visited on a oneworld explorer?? Currently I am booked BOS-SFO-HKG-JNB-LHR-BOS.

My agent tells me I need to overnight in HKG before flying on to JNB. Is this correct??

no, unless u can't make the connection.

I say get a new travel agent. There is nothing in the rules about required overnight stays. However it is possible that CX does not service JNB the day you arrive. What day are you looking to go?

rich



[This message has been edited by RichLond (edited 02-07-2002).]

Nope. I have transited through LHR or LGW on my way home to Australia from the US on OWE fares. My regular jaunt to DFW is cheaper on a RTW ticket, so I retuen via Europe and Asia, but the only place I stop overnight is DFW. Done this lots of times. Costs less money and get more miles (though I don't max out the miles - I still have to survive the trip).

No overnight required but it looks like an "overday" will be required. My oneworld planner show that HKG arrivals from SFO on CX get in about 0640 and the JNB departures leave around 2350.

Correct AND the JNB departures on CX only run three or four days a week. The other days are code-share on South African Airways. I'm not sure about the RTWs, but I know that you can't do award tickets to JNB on those flights.

Good point techgirl. Oneworld RTW must be flown on OW carrier metal, no codeshares.

Actually, I'm going BOS-ORD-NRT-HKG, on AA as far as Narita and CX on to HK. I would arrive HK at 2225 on a Saturday, in plenty of time, I think, to catch the 2340 CX-operated flight 749 to JNB.

I thought the rule sounded fishy. I ask my TA to check again - she's usually wonderful.

To be more specific, the flight must be OW carrier metal, but a codeshare is allowed as long as both the ticketing and operating carriers are OW.

The Saturday night flight is a codeshare flight according to the schedule I have. Friday and Sunday night are CX operated flights.

The other issue might be minimum connection time... I'm not sure if 1:15 is a legal connection, even in transit.

What about commuter affiliates like AA Eagle or the new AA Connection (presumably the old TWExpress), or for that matter LanPeru?

There's a list of codeshare partners that ARE permissable. If they're explicitly listed they can be used (I.E. BA/Comair in South Africa and American Eagle in the US). For other codeshares, the flight is not permissable, I.E. an AA codeshare on JAL or the CX codeshare on SAA.

[This message has been edited by kanebear (edited 02-11-2002).]