Originally Posted by
pandaperth
Yes - the desk is wrong
The only way the allowed exception can come into play is if you are transiting Nth Am to/from Sth Am from/to another continent (Europe, Asia or SWP)
Thanks for the quick response! I called back and though at first was given the same line by a different rep:
We would allow that if there weren't direct flights from S. America to Europe, but there are.
I quoted the rule and after about 5 minutes of the rep reviewing the rules on her end, she agreed with me and changed my held itinerary to my preferred routing and resent it to the rate desk. ^
This routing gives me an extra 4500+ RDM as well as more time in BA F.
I was quite surprised to get this from the otherwise very knowledgeable AA RTW desk.