Originally Posted by
JetSet78
A lot of carriers have stopped accepting paper tickets and now require the "control" of the ticket to be pushed to them, thus requiring an agent. Regardless of disruption to plans, but especially being mechanical, you should have been offered routing on any OA with a participating agreement.
That's correct. But CO has a habit of not doing the right thing in IRROPS, it's been posted in other threads that you may have better success working the IRROP the other way. Go find a carrier with space, walk to that counter, have them call CO to release the ticket, and take it over.