Thanks all for the help. I just ticketed three AONE3 tickets on AA and saved over $500 each on YQ fuel surcharges from what BA would have charged me booking it on-line through the oneworld web site. [You can't make a choice of ticketing carriers on-line and BA was the default ticketing carrier, either because the first flight was on BA or because they are the default issuer for CAI [I don't know which]].

Here's how it all went:

I first called the AA RTW desk in the U.S. The first agent was clueless. She didn't even know AA had a [GSA] ticket office in Cairo. I hung-up and called back the next day.

The second agent was only marginally better. Yes, they would build the record for me and send it to the ticket office in CAI, but payment and all else had to be coordinated with the CAI office. That didn't help much so I hung-up again.

Emeco is the operator of the AA GSA Ticket Office in Cairo. Their e-mail address is [email protected]. I sent them an e-mail with a print-out of the proposed itinerary I built and printed to Adobe format from the oneworld site.

They built the record and sent me the price. They accepted my credit card fpr payment when I sent them a follow-up e-mail with scans of the front and back of the card and a copy of my passport.

The only issue was they charge an Egyption Pound 250 service charge per ticket (~US$43.00). They wouldn't charge that to my credit card, however, and I had to send them a wire transfer for the sum.

So it all worked fine, save for the issues and cost of sending the wire transfer for the service charge.