https://www.oneworld.com/documents/1...9-d346ec820edf

the new rule is up...

I don't usually read the PDF so forgive me but .... I thought side trips were permitted with no restrictions?

I suspect the intent is that other tickets should not be combined in the same PNR as the xONEx ticket. Obviously as separate tickets the restrictions are the now limited through checking of luggage and protection in times of irregular operations.

Happy wandering (as long as you don't need to through check)

Fred

It used to be possible to include side trips on the same ticket. I never did this, as using one of your sixteen sectors towards a separate fare would be madness. But I remember it was possible.

I found Feb 2009 version. It has the following wording.

This is at odds with the GDS: LONLON BA DONE3 has the following:

I knew I wasn't (entirely) mad. :D

have anyone re-routed under the new rule since the new rule was posted on oneworld website again?

both QR and CX claimed that the rule wont allow the 2 stops in Asia (but it was before the new rule was posted again on oneworld website.)

I believe that this is a moot point because the rules in effect at the time of the purchase are the ones that apply. Calling Calchas & pandperth. I would love to take advantage of the new rules regarding N.Am entries, but the down side is that the fare may be redone at today's rates !!! A big no-no for the ex-CAI fares that everyone is currently using.

Well the consensus was that while officially the old rules ought to be used, in practice that is not the case for xONEx fares. I assume this is why pbd456 was seeking reports... :)

I have no direct experience of this. And my (maybe faulty) memory is that the fare rules in place at the time of purchase remain in effect for the entirety of the ticket. (IIRC this was in the context of an airline leaving Oneworld, but if you already had a flight booked with that airline, then that was still honoured.)

The barrack-room lawyer in me says that this must be the case - the contract between a pax and an airline essentially consists of the fare rules and the general conditions of carriage. For there to be certainty in the contract, these should remain on effect for the duration of the contracted service, in other for the duration of the ticket.
If a pax could request/demand the right to take advantage of a favourable rule change, then the airlines would in turn demand that unfavourable rule changes be enforced.

Yes this is correct from the IATA ticketing procedures ("use the fares in effect at the time the ticket was originally issued") for all ticket reissues.

But it is not universally applied when reissuing xONEx fares, probably because changes are done by hand.

Yes, it was done prior that, the ticket was originally issued in 2016 August. Totally forgot to answer as I was busy travelling with that RTW. But if it still interests someone to get recent data points.

As in the previous answers, in my experience, practice have been to use the newest rules, but YMMV.

2017-Sep-05 New Version of the Rule Sheet
 

There is a new version of the rule sheet on the OW web site

BUT I cannot spot any changes from the version published on Aug 5th:confused:
Can anyone else spot any changes?

I diff'd the old rules with the new from ExpertFlyer. The only change is as follows

Before:

After:
As I read that as a non-exhaustive list of examples, I think it has no material effect.

The changed full stop "ASIA. CONTINENTS" -> "ASIA CONTINENTS." is surely a typo.