stopover rule on multi city flights

[yyua3812]

Hi everyone, first post here.
I'm trying to book a multi city trip on Qantas website. The flights are as following:
Sydney --> Hong Kong 9/2/2012
Hong Kong --> Shanghai 13/2/2012
Shanghai --> Sydney 7/3/2012
Fare type is "sale". $1114 seems like a very good price.
Now I am confused about the stopover rule. The fare condition states that no stopover is permitted.
Is Hong Kong leg of my trip considered as stopover? And what does the stopover rule really mean in relation to my trip?

Thank you if anyone can explain this.

 

[wingspan]

No stopovers refer to any connection points you may have on each leg of your itinerary. So you can stay in HKG as that's the end of one leg. As you're flying from SYD to HKG then HKG to PVG then PVG to SYD, those are probably all direct flights. So no connection point in between. So you're good to go. It would be a concern if you were flying from HKG to PVG via PEK and wanted to stopover in PEK, because the no stopover rule would not permit this.

 

[wingspan]

So to answer your question, the stopover rule has nothing to do with your trip.