"Home" country re-entry question
 

When you return to your home region, I understand that once you touch 'home soil' you can't leave the country.

But that doesn't apply when you start out, right?

Specifically, once JL joins and is approved for xONEx, would

NRT-KUL-NRT-SFO to start off be legal?

Steve

It does apply. only 1 international departure and 1 international arrival from and to country of origin is permitted

Dave

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No, you'd have to do NRT-KUL-HKG-SFO as you cannot use NRT as a hub if originating in Japan (except for domestic flights, but most of those operate from HND instead of NRT).

Starting XONEX's in a hub country is rarely a good idea.

I'd have loved to have started my most recent LONE3 from the UK, but simply could not avoid needing to transit LHR in my journey, so has to move the origination across the channel to France.

Try downloading the RTW Planner from:
http://www.oneworld.com/ow/timetables

It should tell you what is legal and what not. It may not be updated to include the new additions and the exit that will be effective April 1.

Is there a Mac desktop/laptop version of RTW Planner? All I can find is the Palm Mac version.

It should, but in many cases it doesn't, so a word of caution to new users: the RTW planner is full of bugs.