It has been reported here recently that it is no longer being allowed, because of the MRU-JNB flight.

Have just tried to validate an ex SYD route with tail-end transits back thru Sydney, but it's giving an error:

Rule violated!!!! [SYD-CNS] Max 1 segment(s): Travel via original point of origin not permitted

So while the restriction has been removed, the validator appears not to have caught up.

Has it been removed completely? Or are there new conditions/continents/countries/cities etc.? Can the check for routing via point of origin be removed totally?
Absolutely ;) I'm not doing any pro-active checking; I'm only responding to issues brought up here. Thanks for highlighting this one :)

Yes.

0.95006 released
 

Thanks Viajero

The "travel via point of origin" restriction is now removed in 0.95006. Doing this had the potential to break the "One intl departure/arrival from country of origin" check, so I tested that this was still intact:

syd-cns-syd-lax-lhr-syd (valid)
syd-akl-syd-lax-lhr-syd (invalid)

So to prove that statement wrong, and as advised in the Gibraltar, a little closer thread...I have added MAD-GIB and also removed LHR-GIB (service is from LGW only now).

SLF,

Thankyou for that ... it made my route calculations much easier.

HEL-DXB vv
 

Out on Sunday back on Monday according to OneWorld. Thanks for caretaking this useful tool.

Hi,

Could you please advise how I can...

calculate (Qantas) SC's on open jaw XONEs, ie. HKG-JFK-ZRH/FRA-HKG?

calculate SC's on trips that aren't XONEs?

Set your earnings preferences as Qantas and enter the itinerary like this:

HKG-JFK-ZRH//FRA-HKG

or

HKG-JFK-ZRH,FRA-HKG

Thanks.

But this still doesn't work in one way, r/t, or point to point.

you can do a 'dummy' RTW containing the segments you are intersted in.

Say you wanted to know how many for TPE-HKG, you could do HKG-TPE-NRT-DFW-JFK-LHR-HKG and read off the result for HKG-TPE.

HNY to all and thanks for resurrecting this tool for all of us:

Few things I just noticed:
LCA-LHR earns 40 TPs on BAEC, not 120 (used to be 120 until 2-3 years ago). Ditto for PFO-MAN
HEL-LCA is missing. AY flies this weekly (3x weekly in summer)- AY 2851 effective 17Feb
MAD-OTP. Looks like IB is now flying this route using its own aircraft on weekends (IB3801 effective 3/3/07)

Thanks Cyba. The tool takes a simplistic approach (I can say this as it was me who created the simplicity ;)) to BA TPs - it is purely based on the distance of 2000 miles being the split between long & short haul TPs as far as BA is concerned. Both LCA-LHR and PFO-MAN come in at > 2000 miles, so therefore the TPs computed are wrong because BA sells them as short haul. Likewise, BAH-DOH, AUH-MCT will also be wrong. There's no easy remedy for this :( I'll look at adding the missing sectors later this week.

This makes sense. I thought it was just a simple case of changing values in a lookup table. No worries - I don't think it's a major issue. Thanks