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Apr 12, 2005 | 3:27 am
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Hi,

Is this a valid *RTW route.

BKKx-SIN-JNB-FRAx-AMS-ARN-ORDx-DTW-ORDx
-SFO-SEA-ORDx-NYC-BKK

x denotes it's just a transit.

The confusion stems from whether the SEA-NYC segment is considered backtracking or not. While my TA says it's not backtracking (and i agree), the TG people, who have to upgrade the relevent TG sectors for me are not sure.

thanks in advance
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Apr 12, 2005 | 4:11 am
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Originally Posted by RWY02KTM
BKKx-SIN-JNB-FRAx-AMS-ARN-ORDx-DTW-ORDx
-SFO-SEA-ORDx-NYC-BKK

The confusion stems from whether the SEA-NYC segment is considered backtracking or not. While my TA says it's not backtracking (and i agree), the TG people, who have to upgrade the relevent TG sectors for me are not sure.
Shouldn't be back-tracking, since it's within North America.

One observation, though: this routing comes to 30969 miles in the Great Circle Mapper. Yes, the 'official' distance will be different--but _how_ different can it be? In other words, you are right between the Star1 and Star2 limits. You can add 3000 miles more!

cheers,

Henry
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Apr 12, 2005 | 4:12 am
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Looks good to me - they may be getting confused with the NYC-BKK segment. It's trans-Pac but "looks" like trans-Atlantic.
I can't imagine TG being a founding member of the alliance would be confused with a backtracking rule within the USA as there is no such rule.
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Apr 12, 2005 | 4:50 am
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Shouldn't be back-tracking, since it's within North America.

One observation, though: this routing comes to 30969 miles in the Great Circle Mapper. Yes, the 'official' distance will be different--but _how_ different can it be? In other words, you are right between the Star1 and Star2 limits. You can add 3000 miles more!

Henry
Thanks folks.

On miles, either AMS, DTW and SFO gets dropped or I think i am adding bkk-ktm-bkk to the end. since the ticket is year long. can use it some other time. or even actually start and end in KTM.

I would hope that the RTWMC gets updated and show NYC-BKK as transpac, in which case i would just take my laptop and show it to them :-).

TIA
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Apr 14, 2005 | 12:43 am
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thanks to everyone,

I finally got

BKK-KTM-BKKx-SIN-JNB-FRAx-AMS-ARN-ORDx-DTW-SFO-SEA-NYC-BKK

Yes.. it eventually was the NYC-BKK issue.
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