Changes to xONEx Rule Sheet
 

There's a new version of the rule sheet, dated 4 August 2009.

A quick scan for highlighted changes gives:

4(c) Travel may originate at any point for which fares are published and must terminate at the same point, except that origin-destination surface segments are permitted as follows
...
(g) between Maldives & Sri Lanka/India

8. STOPOVERS
Permitted
NOTE: 1. Maximum two stopovers permitted in the continent of origin of which a maximum of one stopover is permitted in each direction in the country of origin...

10. Sales Restrictions
...
The resultant fare must not be lower than from the country of sale.
Exception: Not applicable for sales made and/or travel originating in Canada or when BOTH travel originates and sales are made within the European Common Aviation Area (ECAA)/Switzerland.

Thanks for doing the hard yards pandaperth! :)

I think the:was noted with the online booking tool back in June but was not reflected in the online rules .pdf available at the time.

BTW I have no idea how this thread has become a 'sticky'
Nothing that I (knowingly) did
Honest:)

This rule has some teeth!
 

I booked a LONE4 for this morning via the AA ATW desk.

I wanted AKL-LAX- ... -NRT-SYD-MEL-AKL with stopovers at MEL and SYD.

I was informed that I could only have two stopovers in my continent of origin (which I knew) but this rule variance meant I could have one stopover "at the start of the trip" and the one stopover "at the end"; I could not have none "at the start" and two "at the end" or vv. (That was how it was put to me).

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In hindsight, I probably should have pushed this due to the difference between country and continent "of origin".
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However, It was no real issue in our case; I simply wanted to book most connections as stopovers¶ so I simply booked AKL-LAX- ... -NRT-xSYD-MEL-AKL (i.e. a transit in SYD).

It is not an issue for intra Oz flights if you start outside of SWP.

¶To avoid later fees and/or re-ticketing should I need to change routing resulting in a transfer (-x) becoming a stopover (-)

Hi,

I was wondering whether this rule affects my proposed DONE4.

Route:

cgk-nrt-pek-hkg-jfk.....-lhr-hkg-cgk.


I wanted to have a stopover in nrt and pek. Am I misapplying the rule, or is that now not allowed?

Unless the map of Asia is redrawn significantly so that CGK, PEK, and NRT end up in the same country you should be fine. :)

Does the oneworld booking tool allow such a routing?

( http://oneworldrtw.innosked.com/ )

Actually, the rule states "CONTINENT ...", not "COUNTRY ...".

And then it states both, so it's ok

Exactly! Two stopovers allowed in CONTINENT of origin, which means that PEK and NRT should be fine, since they are NOT both in COUNTRY of origin, which would violate the second half of the rule...

Ahh. very good.

My contract law lecturer would be quite disappointed in me..

Thanks

Fraserm

I'm confused here. You (or the AA RTW desk) seem to be suggesting that in this case SYD & MEL are in the same country as AKL. Am I missing something?

In each direction? This just doesn't make sense IMO. The last time I checked (a couple minutes ago) travel was in one direction, so what do they actually mean?

Does the rule really mean maximum of 1 stopover in the country of origin prior to exiting the country of origin and maximum of 1 stopover upon returning to the country of origin. Or does it mean maximum of 1 stopover in country of origin. They could not have made it more unclear IMO and is wide open for interpretation as Serfty has already encountered.

It seems clear to me that it means the former. If they had meant "maximum of 1 stopover in country of origin" they would simply have omitted the phrase "in each direction".

What is confusing me is that SYD and MEL aren't in the country of origin so I don't see how AA could prohibit his two stopovers at the end.

The rule that AA seems to have applied is which is not what I read the rule as saying at all. To me this seems to be "Agent Error" at the AA RTW desk (not realising that Australia and New Zealand are different countries).

New rule prohibts a routing such as
BWI-xDFW-LAX-JFK-LHR-HKG-JFK
Before new rule introduced, one can practically make a domestic side trip before/after REAL RTW trip.
Oneworld does not want such routing, just IMHO.