Yup. See my previous post here. 1st-Air are the only travel agent I've found so far that is willing to issue a DONE5 in Turkey.

Your Australia section seems invalid

Within Australia only one non stop flight is permitted between Perth and Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne or Sydney; or between Darwin and Melbourne or Sydney; or between Broome and Melbourne or Sydney. This restriction does not apply for passengers originating their travel in Perth or New Zealand when travelling to/from Africa on the Melbourne or Sydney to Perth direct flights.

Dave

There seems to be some confusion on this point, but the rules as published by CX in HKG (latest revision 18 April 2006) do say:

Yet the Star Files at http://www.hardlink.com/~markdu/OWFi...eExplorer.html say:

I know that the CX Rules are as currently published by them to their TAs (I have a login on cxagents.com), so either there are two different versions of the rules out there, or markdu's source is out of date... My guess is that there is an editing error by whoever produced the file at the markdu site. Note that the exception refers to "no restriction on travel between SYD/MEL and PER", whereas the restricted list omits MEL.

never mind - I read the following posts. I wish they were more consistent.

The CX rules are quite correct. The addition of MEL as a restriction for PER flights is a fairly recent addition and the details on markdu site used to be correct; they just seem not to have been updated with the change

Dave

That's great news! I can't find any schedule info about direct flights to DPS from Syd yet. Will BA issue a ticket now on the basis of these new flights becoming available or willl i have to give an itinerary including DPS now and change it after July?

...akl-mel-per-syd-mel...
 

Odd.. Do the rules vary between carriers? As I said, both my DONE04 tickets issued by AA CAI have the above routing. The one ticket was issued in 2005, but the latest was issued 4/2006.

The rules are the same though did change not that long ago; if you managed to get the latest one issued with the 2 Oz sectors, then you were lucky and I would avoid doing any reissues until they are flown

Dave

Do you know if they'll be exercising their rights onward to SIN as before?

i just got off the phone with AA RWT desk.

as one of my last legs I wanted to do:

PER - MEL - PER

but lady on phone said the new rule came in just yesteary that you are allowed only one transocean fare in Australia.

Thus I am doing PER - MEL - SYD

I wonder what she really meant? PER-MEL violates the "one transcon" rule for Australia (similar rule for North America) but MEL has been on that list a lot longer than 'yesterday'. I hope they haven't dreamed up something about Aus-NZ similar to our Hawaii prohibition. (If you go to Hawaii from the mainland you can't return, even on a separate ticket.)

Methinks it's more likely either your "lady on phone" or you, meant transcontinental rather then transocean.

Also, the rule about MEL-PER being included in the transcontinental list (along with PER-SYD/BNE/CNS) came in about 15th August 2005. The DONE4 I am currently undertaking was booked just before then and had -MEL-PER-CNS- in the itinery.

Inded they will be - there's three return flights a week SIN-DPS in the schedule, on WED-FRI-SUN, from the 1st of July. These routes will probably end up being taken over by Jetstar International sometime around December though would be my guess, so unfortunately it's not a big window that'll be open to get mainline flights booked in.

It sounds like QF just grabbed their old schedule and pasted it into the new timetable. Jetstar is NOT one of the approved-for-OWE Qantas associates?

(This matter would have been more interesting a couple of years ago before this *%^*(! group warped my mind into a mileage maniac. I remember when I used to actually plan trips based on how quickly I could get from point A to point B. Now, of course, I must fly SYD-HKG-DPS-HKG-SIN, because it's a lot more miles than SYD-DPS-SIN. Like I ever use them for anything.)

I do see MEL mentioned in the latest file. I'll grab it tomorrow.