SJU = continental US?
 

As far as the OWE is concerned, does SJU count as part of Continental US?

thanks
goodo

Yes. And so does Latin America.

Er, I'm not sure whether GB is joking or what here, but what is in North America is the USA, Canada, The Caribbean and Central America as far south as Panama.

Most of what is normally called Latin America (i.e. the bits that speak Spanish or Portuguese) is in South America as far as OWEs are concerned.

I don't see any interpretation that would make SJU part of the continental US.

[This message has been edited by christep (edited 12-22-2002).]

continent US is the 48 states, in any definition.

OWE cannot cannot define continent US or US, i think GB is refering the definition of mr W http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
and the statement goes to....... so is the mesopotamia

Well the reason I was asking was because in the Australian OWE rules, it says "BACKTRACKING BETWEEN HAWAII AND THE CONTINENTAL USA/CANADA IS NOT PERMITTED", if SJU is not continental USA, then I could fly SJU-LIH-LAX, and it wouldn't be considered backtracking (i think).

goodo

i c....but in your case it is LIH-LAX potion that is backtracking, unelss you can find flights such as lax-lih-sju.

even for such routes, i guess it is not something that we can determine. it is up to the interpetation of the airline staff.

good luck!

[you can argue continental USA + canada, but one can also argue it means continent "usa/canada" = continent "north america" which includes the carribean....]

[This message has been edited by pegasus8228 (edited 12-22-2002).]

Sorry. I meant Central America!

And yes, unless youcan a thru flight from Hawaii straight to the caribbean on ONE flight number without any changes , then you might get away with it.

[This message has been edited by Guy Betsy (edited 12-22-2002).]

There is a flight SJU-LIH. I though if I took this flight, then technically it wasn't Continental USA-Hawaii, therefore LIH-LAX would be my first flight between Hawaii and Continental USA and therefore wouldn't be considered backtracking.

goodo

Including SJU in all of my RTW's to date, I can assure you that for OWE SJU is continental U.S.

From my understanding, this can be done, on a transit from EUR or SA. On a westbound OWE, I see something like: ASIA-EUR-SA-sju-lih-lax-restofNA-ASIA... This could not be considered backtracking from Hawaii to cont US, correct? I think we are having conflict re: continental US vs. North America. For a US resident, this could work into a way to throw in a Hawaii trip in the middle of a OWE stopover; say SA-sju-(cheap R/T purchased sju-hometown-sju)-lih-lax-hometown-ASIA.. Anyone been able to book such a route???

Robin

The way I read the rules it sounds like it would work.