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Originally Posted by pandaperth
(Post 34757127)
You are certainly allowed more than one stopover @ LHR, and I have personally had an itinerary with 2 such stopovers.
The rules concerning stopovers are - travel may not be via the point of origin (and so by implication no stopover there) - maximum two stopovers in the continent of origin (which for you is Asia) - minimum two stopovers required That's all with regard to the LHR-DOH-LHR being flagged, an outside possibility is that this a hangover from an old, old version of the rules which restricted the number of intra-Europe/Middle East flights to/from the UK. I consider this unlikely because it would have had its own specific error message. But it can be easily checked - simply change LHR-DOH-SYD to say CDG-DOH-SYD. _____________________________________ FYI the old rule was removed by the update of 2016-12; its wording was: 4(h) A minimum of 3 and maximum of 16 segments, including surface segments between any 2 airports, are permitted for the entire journey. Free flight segments within each continent are limited as follows: Africa 4 Asia 4 Europe Middle East 4* *not more than 2 of which may be between the UK and ALBANIA, ALGERIA, BULGARIA, CROATIA, CYPRUS, GREECE, MIDDLE EAST, MOROCCO, ROMANIA, RUSSIA west of the Urals, TUNISIA, TURKEY, UKRAINE ... thanks for this and I knew there used to be the rule limiting no of flights between UK and Middle East and also that it had changed I’ve tried putting in LHR-CDG-DOH-SYD and hey presto it prices up … while keeping the LHR-DXB-LHR so it seems like it is the old rule is being applied even though there is no error message saying that … For the dates I need to travel QR are not using A380 on CDG-DOH route so no F class … Looks like I will have to bite the bullet and call someone to get the ticket set up with the routing I want. Any thoughts on whether AA RTW is the best option - thought at present not too able to use them for over ocean flight as their codeshare with JAL on the initial TYO ORD flight has no A class availability though I’m sure that will change. I’ve never done any ticketing with JAL for RtWs I usually have my first flight on CX from HND to HKG in First but sadly not back in time for my travel … As ever thanks for the help ! |
Originally Posted by pianoperson
(Post 34757850)
Hi
thanks for this and I knew there used to be the rule limiting no of flights between UK and Middle East and also that it had changed I’ve tried putting in LHR-CDG-DOH-SYD and hey presto it prices up … while keeping the LHR-DXB-LHR so it seems like it is the old rule is being applied even though there is no error message saying that … For the dates I need to travel QR are not using A380 on CDG-DOH route so no F class … Looks like I will have to bite the bullet and call someone to get the ticket set up with the routing I want. Any thoughts on whether AA RTW is the best option - thought at present not too able to use them for over ocean flight as their codeshare with JAL on the initial TYO ORD flight has no A class availability though I’m sure that will change. I’ve never done any ticketing with JAL for RtWs I usually have my first flight on CX from HND to HKG in First but sadly not back in time for my travel … As ever thanks for the help ! |
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