Rules for RTW One World Redemption Ticket

[burnt]

I am looking at a trip that has two "arunks" in it, how does Qantas see the city at the end of the "arunk", ie is it a transit, a stop over or "not counted" as anything except a sector used out of the 16 allowed, had been told that it was not a stop over but 131131 said "it was "very quickly without any research? I was planning to "transit back through the airport that was at the end of the arunk, ie fly to Bangkok, arunk to Hong kong ( via cruise) then from HK to Dubai with a stopover in Dubai and transit back throught HK to Singapore. Your thoughts

 

[Danger]

What's an arunk?

 

[burnt]

An "Arunk" is an overland (non fly} sector between two consecutive points in one itinerary. eg you could fly from Brisbane to Sydney, arunk between Sydney and Canberra (say drive to visit mates half way down) and then fly from canberra to Melbourne. The miles for the trip is counted for ALL sectors (flown or not flown)

Strange that at your level you had not heard the term (arunk), but maybe you are an accumulator and redeem your points in a fairly standard manner, without the more technical itinerary.

 

[dfcatch]

As far as I know it's simply a surface sector, at least that's been my experience.

FWIW I've never heard of the term either.

Thought it was simply a surface sector or an open-jaw depending on how it's used

 

[aikman]

In your example, I'd count both BKK & HKG as a stopover city. Since the rules allow one stopover and two transits in any one city I don't see any issues with what you are trying to do.

 

[williamsf1]

ARUNK stands for "Arrival unknown"

The Off and ON point is counted as one stop , and also a sector as part of the 16 total . You mentioned a RTW ( round the world?) but you only mentioned the following sectors ( assume you are starting in Sydney and following possible airlines )? SYD QF/ BA BKK // HKG CX DXB CX X/HKG CX SIN QF/BA SYD Are you missing some flights ? As you are not going around the world (RTW - Cross Atlantic and Pacific ) or looking at a one world award ?

 

[dot]

ARUNK stands for "Arrival unknown"

According to several sources (1, 2), "ARUNK" is how you say ARNK which appears in the airline's booking system. I suspect that ARNK stands for ARival Not Known although I cannot confirm this. I had never heard of this term before either, normally referring to them as surface sectors in a multi-point itinerary, just as QF does.

 

[burnt]

Interesting discussion re the ARUNK, there is some info. re the term on Wikipedia that I found by typing ARUNK into google. (after the first reply said that they had not heard the term B4). I will post my full itin. when I convert all the airports to airline identifiers.

 

[NM]

It counts as one of the maximum of five stopovers. The "surface sector" counts as one of your maximum 16 itinerary sectors. This now even includes cities with co-terminals such as London (arrive LGW, depart LHR = 1 surface sector).

Note that there is no specific RTW (actually the term should be ATW) OneWorld award. The Qantas OneWorld Award rules apply to any routing whether it happens to circumnavigate the world or not, so is quite different to ATW products.