Backtracking
May 12, 2004 | 6:34 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Pacific Northwest (BA Silver, Hilton Diamond, Alaska MVP)
Posts: 187
Backtracking
I have never quite gotten a handle on the rules in OWE or GLOB for backtracking. I think I understand that it is not permitted in OWE unless you go through a particular place as a transit pax (no stay of xx hours?). If that was true, then you could come back to that place and make it a stopver. But in the case of GLOB fares (mileage based?) I don't know at all.
Can anyone please enlighten me in general terms for both OWE and GLOB?
I'm thinking of something like this:
BAH-DXB-HKG-LHR (transit)-LAX-LHR (stopover)-BAH....(with more to be added).
Or same kind of thing in the US.
Thanks very much!
Can anyone please enlighten me in general terms for both OWE and GLOB?
I'm thinking of something like this:
BAH-DXB-HKG-LHR (transit)-LAX-LHR (stopover)-BAH....(with more to be added).
Or same kind of thing in the US.
Thanks very much!
May 12, 2004 | 7:31 am
#2
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: LAX
Posts: 3,641
With a few special-purpose exceptions, backtracking between "continents" isn't allowed on OWE so LHR-LAX-LHR is out. And you're also only allowed to cross each ocean once. Within a "continent" backtracking is allowed all you want, except you're not allowed to fly through the city where it all began.
DXB and LHR are, interestingly, in the same "continent" or zone.
DXB and LHR are, interestingly, in the same "continent" or zone.