oneworld Explorer

AA / AY / BA / CX / IB / JJ / JL / KA / LA / MH / NU / QF / QR / RJ / S7 / UL
RWR2 RULE 3015
/ XL / 4M

Eff 1 September 2018

• Fares ex Egypt introduced
• Para 4 (j) Open Skies removed as an affiliated airline of BA

0. APPLICATION AND OTHER CONDITIONS

First / Business / Economy RTW / Open Jaw travel via

AA/AY/BA/CX/IB/JJ/JL/KA/LA/MH/NU/QF/QR/RJ/S7/UL/XL/4M operated services worldwide.

Capacity Limitations

The carrier shall limit the number of passengers carried on any one flight on fares governed by this rule and
such fares will not necessarily be available on all flights. The number of seats which the carrier shall make
available on a given flight will be determined by the carrier’s best judgement.

Other Conditions

Fares apply only if purchased prior to departure.

The fare to be charged is determined by the highest class travelled and the number of geographic
continents in the itinerary including the continent of origin and continents transited.
The Fare Basis corresponds to the number of continents and class purchased.

Fare Basis
Continents
Economy Business First
3 LONE3 IONE3* /DONE3 AONE3
4 LONE4 DONE4 AONE4
5 LONE5 DONE5 AONE5
6 LONE6 DONE6 AONE6

* IONE3 offered from select markets only

Travel between South West Pacific and Europe/Middle East on a single flight number/or by surface eg LON-
SYD/MEL/PER vv, DOH-ADL/AKL/CBR/MEL/PER/SYD vv, is considered travelling via Asia.
Continents South West Pacific, Asia and Europe/Middle East must each be counted.

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Continents are defined as:

• Europe-Middle East • Asia • North America

• Africa • South West Pacific • South America
these 2 continents together these 2 continents together these 2 continents together
shall Comprise TC2 shall Comprise TC3 shall Comprise TC1

The continent of Europe-Middle East consists of 2 zones:

o Europe (including Algeria, Morocco, Russia west of the Urals and Tunisia)
o Middle East (including Egypt, Libya and Sudan)

The continent of Asia includes, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia east of the Urals, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
and Uzbekistan.

The continent of North America includes the Caribbean, Central America and Panama.

Baggage regulations

Two free pieces of 23 kilos each shall be permitted. Additional allowances may apply. Refer to individual
carrier websites.

Passenger Expenses

Not permitted.

Fares

Refer GDS.

4. FLIGHT APPLICATION / ROUTINGS

Fares only apply on any AA/AY/BA/CX/IB/JJ/JL/KA/LA/MH/NU/QF/QR/RJ/S7/UL/XL/4M flights.

(a) Travel must be via the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and only one crossing of each ocean is permitted.

(b) Travel must be in a continuous forward direction between TC1 - TC2 - TC3. Backtracking within a
continent is permitted except as follows:

Backtracking between Hawaii and other points in North America is not permitted.

(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:

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a. within the country of origin

b. within the Middle East
c. between the United States and Canada
d. between HKG and China
e. between Malaysia and SIN
f. within Africa
g. between Maldives and Sri Lanka/India

(d) Travel may not be via the point of origin.

(e) Only one intercontinental departure and one intercontinental arrival permitted in each continent
except as follows:

1. Two permitted in North America.

2. Two permitted in Asia when one is for travel between the Southwest Pacific and
Europe/Middle East.
3. Two permitted in Europe/Middle East for travel to/from/via Africa.
If travel is to/from Europe in both directions, itinerary may not include Mauritius/South Africa.

(f) Only one international departure and one international arrival from/to the country of origin
permitted.
EXCEPTION: Two permitted for origin USA when one arrival-departure is a transfer without stopover.
NOTE: travel between USA and Canada is not counted as international.
No more than 4 international transfers from the one country permitted.

(g) Intermediate surface sectors are permitted at the passenger’s expense.

Transoceanic surface sectors between TC1-TC2 and TC1-TC3 are not permitted.
EXCEPTION: For travel originating in the South West Pacific, one transoceanic surface sector between
TC1-TC2 or TC1-TC3 is permitted.
The first crossing between TC areas must be flown, not surfaced.

(h) A minimum of 3 and maximum of 16 segments, including surface segments between any 2 airports,
are permitted for the entire journey. Free flight segments within each continent are limited as follows:

Africa 4
Asia 4
Europe/Middle East 4
North America 6
South America 4
South West Pacific 4

(i) The same city pairs/sectors cannot be flown more than once in the same direction.

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(j) Travel on any AA/AY/BA/CX/IB/JJ/JL/KA/LA/MH/NU/QF/QR/RJ/S7/UL/XL/4M codeshare service

operated by AA/AY/BA/CX/IB/JJ/JL/KA/LA/MH/NU/QF/QR/RJ/S7/UL/XL/4M is permitted.

Other codeshare services not permitted with the exception of QF Codeshare services operated by
Jetstar (JQ).

QF operated services within USA (eg LAX-JFK vv) not permitted unless booked in conjunction with a QF
operated and marketed online connection or stopover flight at LAX

Additionally, travel permitted on the following affiliated airlines:

American Eagle (Operated by Envoy Airlines, Republic Airlines,

AMERICAN AIRLINES SkyWest Airlines, and ExpressJet Airlines, Mesa Airlines, Compass
Airlines, Trans States Airlines, PSA Airlines and Piedmont Airlines)
BA CityFlyer including flights operated by Eastern Airways / Comair /
BRITISH AIRWAYS
SUN-AIR of Scandinavia / BA Limited
FINNAIR Nordic Regional Airlines (Norra)
IBERIA AIRLINES Air Nostrum / Iberia Express
JAPAN AIRLINES J-Air / HAC (Hokkaido Air System)
LATAM LATAM Express / LATAM Peru / LATAM Colombia
QantasLink operated by Eastern Australia / Jetconnect / National Jet
QANTAS
Systems / Sunstate Airlines / Network Aviation
SIBERIA AIRLINES Globus

Ground transportation services operated by/for BA/QF may not be included as part of the oneworld
Explorer.

(k) Within the USA/Canada only one nonstop or single plane service transcontinental flight permitted. A
transcontinental flight is defined as travel between a city in column A and a city in column B.

COLUMN A COLUMN B
Las Vegas NV Atlanta GA
Long Beach CA Baltimore MD
Los Angeles CA Boston MA
Oakland CA Charlotte NC
Phoenix AZ Cleveland OH
Portland OR Ft Lauderdale FL
San Diego CA Hartford CT
San Francisco CA Miami FL

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San José CA Newark NJ

Santa Ana CA New York NY
Seattle WA Orlando FL
Vancouver BC Philadelphia PA
Pittsburgh PA
Raleigh Durham NC
San Juan PR
Tampa FL
Toronto ON
Washington DC
West Palm Beach FL

Additionally, only one flight to Anchorage (ANC) and one flight from Anchorage (ANC) permitted.

(l) Within Australia - only one nonstop/single plane service flight is permitted between the following
points:
BNE/CBR/CNS/SYD/MEL - PER
CBR/MEL/SYD - DRW
BNE/MEL/SYD - BME
BNE/MEL/SYD - KTA

EXCEPTION:
A. No restriction between SYD/MEL - PER for passengers originating in PER when in conjunction with
travel to/from JNB/SHA
B. No restriction between SYD/MEL - PER for passengers originating in New Zealand when in
conjunction with travel to/from JNB

5. RESERVATIONS AND TICKETING

(a) Reservations and Ticketing

Reservations for the first international flight and all preceding flights must be made prior to departure.
Subsequent segments may be open-dated.

EXCEPTION:

Reservations Made Complete Ticketing

29 or more days before departure 25 days before departure
3 days after reservations or 7 days before to departure,
28 - 8 days before departure
whichever comes first
24 hours after booking, but no later than one hour before
7 days or less before departure
departure

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OSI YY OW RTW to be inserted into PNR to avoid reservation cancellation.

(b) Booking Codes

Business
First Economy
DONE* IONE3
AA BA CX KA MH QF QR A D I L
IB RJ UL D D I L
S7 D D D L
AY International flights D D I L
AY Domestic flights Y Y Y L
JL International flights A D I L
JL NU Domestic flights F J J Y
JJ J/W D/W I/W L
LA International flights J/W D/W I/W L
XL 4M International flights J/W D I L
LA IPC-SCL vv J/W D I L
LA XL 4M Domestic flights Y Y Y L
AA Premium Economy P
BA World Traveller Plus
T
IB Premium Economy
CX QF Premium Economy R
JL Premium Economy E

NOTE: For flights where First or Business Class is not offered or available, passengers may travel in a
lower class, in the applicable booking code for that lower class.

Where the applicable booking class for the lower class is not available, passengers travelling on First
Class fares may book Y Class.
Passengers travelling on DONE* Business Class fares may book B Class (except AA) or H Class on AA.

The fare for the highest class used applies, without compensation.

EXCEPTION:
For services within the Middle East, where no Business Class is offered, Business Class passengers may
book and travel in A Class on QR, subject to availability. This provision does not apply on any flight
where Business Class exists but is unavailable for booking.

6. MINIMUM STAY

No minimum stay except:

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All fares originating in TC1 Travel on the last international sector must commence no earlier than 10
days after commencement of the first international sector

7. MAXIMUM STAY

Return travel from the last stopover point must commence no later than 12 months after departure.

8. STOPOVERS

Permitted.

NOTE:
1. Minimum 2 stopovers required
2. Maximum 2 stopovers permitted in the continent of origin

9. TRANSFERS / ROUTINGS

Unlimited online/interline transfers permitted between

AA/AY/BA/CX/IB/JJ/JL/KA/LA/MH/NU/QF/QR/RJ/S7/UL/XL/4M

10. PERMITTED COMBINATIONS

Add-ons not permitted.

Combinations with other fares not permitted.

12. SURCHARGES

Economy Class Passengers may travel in AA, CX, IB, JL, QF Premium Economy cabin or BA World Traveller
Plus cabin for an additional charge, per flight segment of:

Sectors between SWP and Africa

Sectors between SWP and Europe/Middle East
USD 1450
Sectors between SWP and North America
Sectors between SWP and South America
Sectors between South East Asia and South Asian Subcontinent
USD 350
Sectors between South East Asia and Japan/Korea
Sectors within South East Asia
Sectors within Australia USD 250
Sectors within Middle East
All other sectors USD 950

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Book in
AA - P Class
BA/IB - T Class
JL - E Class
CX/QF - R Class
Identify as a -Q- in the fare calculation, immediately following applicable sector.
Child/infant discounts apply.

15. SALES RESTRICTIONS

Tickets must be issued on the stock of AA/AY/BA/CX/IB/JJ/JL/KA/LA/LP/MH/QF/QR/RJ/S7/UL/XL/4M.

EXCEPTION:
When JQ operated QF marketed is included in an itinerary IB/S7 stock cannot be utilised.

If a ticket includes travel to/from/via Cuba it may not also include flight segments for travel on American
Airlines / American Eagle (operated by Envoy Airlines, Skywest, Express Jet, Republic Airlines, Mesa Airlines,
Compass Airlines, Trans States Airlines, PSA Airlines and Piedmont Airlines) due to U.S. Government
restrictions.
Any such ticket will not be honoured by AA and cannot be used to travel on AA.

16. VOLUNTARY CHANGES / REROUTING / PENALTIES

Fees as described below may be waived in case of certified death/illness of the passenger or passenger’s
immediate family member or accompanying passenger.

Local service fees may apply on rebooking, rerouting, reissue or refund.

(a) Rebooking / Rerouting

1. Prior to departure:

a. Changes are permitted provided ticketed points remain the same. If the first flight coupon
is being changed, and the fare level has increased since ticket issuance, the difference
between the old and new fare will be charged. If the fare level has decreased since ticket
issuance, no refund will apply.

b. Changes to ticketed points are permitted at a charge of USD 125 per transaction. If the fare
level has increased since ticket issuance, the difference between the old and new fare will
also be charged. If the fare level has decreased since ticket issuance, no refund will apply.

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2. After departure:

a. Changes are permitted provided ticketed points remain the same.

b. Changes to ticketed points are permitted at a charge of USD 125 per transaction.

c. No Show requires rebooking at a charge of USD 125.

d. If the rerouting results in an increase to the number of continents previously charged, the
ticket shall be recalculated. Ticket may be reissued to any applicable Explorer fare
validating all rules of the new fare except for restrictions on retroactive use. Rerouting fee
applies when the resulting fare is less than or equal to the original fare. No refund applies.
See Upgrading provisions when recalculation results in a new fare basis at a higher value.

(b) Cancellations and Refunds

1. After ticket issuance - Cancellation/No Show

Forfeit 10% of ticketed fare for Economy Class fares
Forfeit 5% of ticketed fare for Business/First Class fares

2. In case of refusal of official documents/entry permit/visa a full refund will apply provided
official documentation from the approved authority is produced and attached to the refund
request.

3. For partially used transportation the refund if any will be the difference between the fare paid and
the fare for the transportation used less the fee specified in (1) above.

NOTE: For tickets sold in Venezuela any full or partial refund must be processed through the original
issuing location in Venezuela.

(c) Upgrading

1. An Economy Class oneworld Explorer fare may be upgraded to a higher tiered or First/Business
Class oneworld Explorer fare without fee.

2. A Business class oneworld Explorer fare may be upgraded to a higher tiered or First Class
oneworld Explorer fare without fee.

3. A First Class oneworld Explorer fare may be upgraded to a higher tiered oneworld Explorer
fare without fee.

4. Upgrading by sector to Business/First Class is not permitted.

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5. At any time the oneworld Explorer fare may be used as credit towards payment of any higher
fare from the point of origin provided the conditions of the higher fare have been met. No fee
will apply. Where such credit is towards another Explorer fare, retroactive use will be
permitted. Reissued tickets must be endorsed --NON REF/ XXX-- (XXX equals oneworld
Explorer fare basis code) and the original Non-Refundable amount remains Non-Refundable. If
the upgraded ticket is subsequently cancelled, the original fee will apply.

18. TICKET ENDORSEMENTS

(a) Fare basis codes:

First AONE*
Business IONE3/DONE*
Economy LONE*
* Equals number of continents

(b) Endorsements:
The original and reissued ticket must be annotated
Valid on oneworld only / non ref in the endorsement box

19. CHILDREN DISCOUNTS

Accompanied child 2-11 - charge 75 percent of the fare

Ticketing code - base fare code plus CH

or - Infant: under 2 without a seat - charge 10 percent of fare

Ticketing code - base fare code plus IN

NOTE: If an infant reaches two years of age after travel has commenced but before travel is complete, a full
child fare ticket must be purchased for the entire journey.

EXCEPTION: For sales in Russia, for travel commencing in Russia:

Infant under 2 without a seat not permitted. A full Child fare must be purchased for the entire journey.

or - NOTE:
Unaccompanied children are not accepted for transportation using the oneworld Explorer Fare.

20. TOUR CONDUCTORS DISCOUNTS

Not permitted.

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21. AGENT DISCOUNTS

Not permitted.

22. OTHER DISCOUNTS

Applicable to AA only.
Rule 755 Senior Saver Club not permitted.
Rule 1810 Senior Citizen Discount Club not permitted.

26. GROUP TRAVEL

Group travel using these fares is permitted for Business Class and Economy Class travel only.

(a) ELIGIBILITY:
No requirements

(b) MINIMUM GROUP SIZE:

Economy Class - 10 passengers
NOTE: Maximum group size 30 passengers

Business Class - 10 passengers

NOTE: Maximum group size 15 passengers

(c) ACCOMPANIED TRAVEL:

Group required to travel together for the entire itinerary.

(d) DOCUMENTATION:
No requirements

(e) NAME CHANGES AND ADDITIONS:

Name changes and additions are not permitted after the ticketing deadline.

(f) Ticketing carriers Group policy shall apply.

Group Booking Codes Business Economy

AA/AY/BA/CX/IB/JJ/JL/KA/LA/MH/NU/QF/QR/RJ/UL/XL/4M I G
S7 D G

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