What the fare is
A oneworld Explorer is one round-the-world ticket priced by
how many continents you visit, not by how far you fly. You buy a continent
count and a cabin — that pair is the fare basis, so DONE3 is
business across three continents — and inside it you can build almost any journey, as long
as it keeps circling the world in one direction and stays within the rule's limits.
Every flight has to be on a oneworld member airline. A leg you cross some other way — a
train, a car, a ticket bought separately — is a surface sector: allowed,
counted as part of the journey's shape, and arranged by you.
Because the price follows continents rather than distance, two people on the same fare basis
can fly wildly different mileages. That is the whole game, and it is what makes the routing
rules worth checking.
What the rule requires
Reading the ruleset…
What this tool is for
One question: is this itinerary a valid Explorer fare, and if not, why?
Every answer cites the clause it came from, so you can check it against the published rule
instead of taking this page's word for it.
There are three verdicts, not two. Indeterminate means a rule could not be
measured from what you gave it — usually because there are no dates — and the report names
which rule and what it wanted. A rule that could not be measured is never reported as passed.
It does not sell tickets, quote prices, or invent itineraries for you. It also estimates what
a ticket would earn in the loyalty programmes it knows about; the airline's own calculator is
the authority on that.
Using it
- Routing — one line
- Segments — flight by flight
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The same journey as a table, where you can add dates, flight numbers, booking classes and
fare families. Columns the whole ticket shares — the carriers, the class, the fare family,
the kind of connection — fill down: drag the small square at the corner of a cell, or
press Ctrl D. Without dates, choose
No dates or times and the rules that need a clock report as undecided rather than
guessing.
- Switching between them
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The two tabs are two ways of writing one journey, so opening either converts what is in
the other: the table is written out as a routing, and a routing is read back into the
table. Dates, times and flight numbers have no notation in a routing, so a journey that
has been through one comes back without them.
- The report
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The verdict, then every rule broken with its clause and the evidence behind it, then the
route drawn as a map. Rules evaluated lists every rule that ran and what
it measured — not only the ones that failed — including the ones this input could not
answer. Editing the form after a verdict marks the report out of date rather than leaving
a stale answer looking current.
- Sharing and starting
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The address bar carries the itinerary, so a link reproduces exactly what you are looking
at. Load an example is the fastest way in — several of them are
deliberately invalid, and are the quickest way to see what a broken rule reads like.