Hi all.

I'm in Japan on part of an ex-ICN asia, europe, south america, australia RTW.

Some good friends recently decided to travel to europe, and we (my + ms bottletop) thought it would be fun to re-route the europe segments, and spend some time with our friends in europe.

I rang AA oz and japan (due to timezones), and they said as there was no AA segments, they would not reroute (and therefore reissue) the ticket. With the Japan desk the girl said to ring the next carrier (BA). Before ending the call I asked her if the next carrier would add their fuel surcharges to the re-issue cost, and she said it didn't matter, AA was adding fuel surcharges as well now, since 1st march.. (hopefully this is not true)

Anyway, I'm certain that the fuel surcharges from BA or another carrier would likely be more than the cost of some additional tickets (to join our friends in a few places in europe).

I will try to ring AA RTW desk tonight to see if they will reroute and issue.

Questions I have (hope someone can help):
1) Does AA normally re-ticket?
2) Will re-ticketing with a new carrier result in getting their fuel surcharges?
3) Is there another carrier i could use, that has low fuel surcharges? (finnair?/jal)

I did read that JAL was dropping it's fuel surcharges by up to 92% effective on flights april 1st - unfortunately i need to leave japan for london before april.

Thanks in advance.