With apologies for the confusion I may have helped to cause, finally, having all along promised me that I would get an e-ticket for my AONE3s ex-MNL with 8 open segments, when Mrs christep went today to get them issued by AA's GSA in Manila they were produced as paper tickets. So it appears that perhaps AA doesn't have the capability to e-ticket with open segments.

I do also know that CX can issue normal round-trip e-tickets with open segments because I have had such a ticket (a couple of years ago).

Personally I see pros and cons for e-ticketing vs paper so I'm relaxed about it. On balance I perhaps prefer paper (until I find out that using paper tickets has become difficult).

What does worry me now is that BA, CX and AY are going to try to charge me money for "revalidating" the Open paper coupons when I actually come to use them, in which case I guess I'm going to have to go after AA to somehow reclaim the money, although if the contract is under Philippines law (that being where the purchase took place) then I'm not sure how easy that will be.