Help! Oneworld novices.
 

I am in the initial stages of planning my itinerary (6 continent - origin Auckland NZ) and am not completely clear on the sector rule.
For example, I want to go to Bangkok, Mumbai, Manila, Sri Lanka in Asia. It looks like Cathay fly to all but I may have to transfer in Hongkong to get between say, Manila and Sri Lanka or Mumbai and Manila.
I need to know whether this transfer (in Hongkong) counts as 2 sectors or 1???
I have the same issues in Africa - as it looks like to get from Windhoek, Namibia to Lusaka, Zambia I have to fly via Johannesburg - is this 1 or 2 sectors.
Any advice appreciated!

Anytime you have a different ticket coupon, that is a segment. Thus, your HKG transfer between MNL and CMB or BOM will involve two different flight numbers and two different ticket coupons resulting in two segments being used. Your OWE segments are limited to four in Asia and four in Africa, however, you can purchase two more in each continent.

[This message has been edited by ExMo (edited 02-19-2003).]

Thanks for the info - I thought as much.

One more question, do the intercontinental flights count as sectors.
Example, Auckland-BKK, BKK-MUMBAI, MUMBAI-HKG, HKG-MNL, MNL-HGK, HKG-Johannesburg.
Is this 4, 5 or 6 sectors in Asia??

That's 4 sectors within Asia, assuming you can ticket AKL-BKK as a single segment. remember that you can buy extra segments if you wish. And that the HKG-CMB flights go through BKK also, so you could do:

AKL-BKK-BOM-BKK-CMB-HKG-MNL-HKG-JNB

by buying the two extra segments. Alternatively, you could buy a one-way ticket separately (on Air Lanka I guess) for BOM-CMB which might well be cheaper than buying the two extra segments on the OWE.

Intercontinental flights do not count against your continental segment's limits.

If your ticket is originating in the SWpacific at AKL, then AKL<SYD<BKK is allowable.

You are alloweda total of two setcors in your home continent to connect to an interantional gateway.

Que?

The rules are that you can have four (six in NA) segments, but only two stopovers in your home continent. So yes AKL-SYD-BKK is allowed but it uses one of the SWP segments.