Originally Posted by
number_6
aa.com showing "ticketed" is definitive. It really means a valid ticket number exists (and the only way that I have ever found on the web to actually show this; sadly only works for aa issued tickets). All the other ways to view ticket numbers that I've found (and there are many) are not quite definitive (they can show both false positives and negatives).
Glad to report I am back in PER after having successfully commenced my AA ticketed LONE4 from NZ. Thanks for all the tips and advice. Hopefully this can be useful to others down the track.^