Originally Posted by
christep
Just to add that I now have further evidence that Guy Betsy and Bukhara are simply wrong about open segments.
The AA RTW desk has just quite happily set up for me two AONE3s ex-MNL where the first 8 segments are dated and the remaining 8 are open. No issues have been raised by either the AA RTW desk or their GSA in Manila in doing this.
I had a similar itinerary setup this year (March/April), and no issues were raised by the AA RTW desk or the GSA in Cape Town, until ticketing. When we were finally ready to issue the tickets, the tickets started printing on paper, instead of the e-ticket that we had asked for. After going back and forth and finally setting up a conference call between the RTW desk and the GSA, they acknowledged that there was a limitation and that open segments could not be issued as e-tickets by AA.
Of course YMMV.