Time to complete a DONE4 - 12 months from ticketing or first flight?
Nov 17, 2018 | 7:43 am
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Time to complete a DONE4 - 12 months from ticketing or first flight?
Hi All,
I have the last leg of a DONE4 and I want to push the flight out. I can't work out if the ticket is valid 12 months from ticketing or from when the first flight commenced?
Ibhayi
I have the last leg of a DONE4 and I want to push the flight out. I can't work out if the ticket is valid 12 months from ticketing or from when the first flight commenced?
Ibhayi
Nov 17, 2018 | 7:49 am
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From the "permanent" rule sheet
Happy wandering
Fred
7. MAXIMUM STAY
Return travel from the last stopover point must commence no later than 12 months after departure.
Return travel from the last stopover point must commence no later than 12 months after departure.
Fred
Nov 17, 2018 | 12:08 pm
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how about this. Let say the first flight is Jan 4, 2019, the last stopover point has to start on Jan 3, 2020? but there can be multiple flights from the last stopover point and each transit can have up to 24 hours. so the last flight can be pushed to something like Jan 6 2020?
Nov 18, 2018 | 3:31 am
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how about this. Let say the first flight is Jan 4, 2019, the last stopover point has to start on Jan 3, 2020? but there can be multiple flights from the last stopover point and each transit can have up to 24 hours. so the last flight can be pushed to something like Jan 6 2020?
Nov 19, 2018 | 5:37 am
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how about this. Let say the first flight is Jan 4, 2019, the last stopover point has to start on Jan 3, 2020? but there can be multiple flights from the last stopover point and each transit can have up to 24 hours. so the last flight can be pushed to something like Jan 6 2020?
Nov 19, 2018 | 6:43 am
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We have discuused intensibly about 1 year/12 months validity in another thread.
For example,
If the first flight dearpts on 28th Feb 2019, the last flight can depart on 29th Feb 2020.
Nov 19, 2018 | 11:04 am
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I mostly agree. What matters is how the ticket is written. For example, I think there are (or used to be) some AA flights which flew LHR (or maybe it was JFK)-LAX-HNL. It was one flight number, but with a change of planes at LAX. I don't think that that is considered a transit or connection for this purpose. I believe that it's the departure of last flight identified on the ticket that is the determining one. One flight number (and thus one coupon) counts as one flight even if there's an equipment change en route.