Originally Posted by
christep
So if what you say is true then presumably you booked all of your OWEs as open-dated transit coupons (except one since you have to meet a 10 day minimum stay requirement - or perhaps you got that waived too?). That way you minimise all the taxes and you just roll up at the airport, get it stickered and off you go?.
As I said repeatedly before, I am not talking about recalculation of taxes. I made the change with BA (or AA or CX), got billed for the tax change (or reimbursed) and proceeded to the airport with the paper ticket. In the case of new dates (also when changing from transit to stopover) no further action was required since the data was already in the system.
In the case of a route change I proceeded to the sales desk of the issuing airline first, they stickered the ticket and Bob was my uncle. This happened 3 times over the years.
Stickering a routing change (e.g taking a coupon that says HKG-TPE and stickering it to HKG-LHR) is just ridiculous. You cannot and could never legitimately sticker a routing change. Apart from anything else it would clearly break all the back office accounting necessary for paying the airlines involved.
Well, again: what can I say? Seems like you got it right and all my agents got it wrong.
I didn't get ripped off - I paid what was required according to the terms of the ticket. You seem to have got lucky, repeatedly.
I might add over 20 times. I checked. Some kind of luck, wouldn't you say?
You seem to be implying that an e-tkt wouldn't have two coupons for this, which is clearly wrong. Two flights (except single flight number service) are always two coupons, even in the electronic world.
Yes, that was more or less my point.
EDIT PS: I am not trying to be right here. I am merely sharing my experiences*. Luckily AA still (to this day) does not charge me the reissue fee for this and since the ticket recently was reissued by CX (for complicated reasons I will not bother you with) I know for a fact that they don't either. Not their HKG office and not their AMS office. BA does not do it from MRU, LHR, USA. AA does not do it from AA RTW or AA CPT. In fact they are always almost apologetic about recalculating the tax.
* which do coincide with my interpretation of the rules by the way.