Just picked up a copy of the owe rules, and saw a few interesting changes. Since there has been a lot of speculation (even by the AA rtw desk, who still doesn't know them), I thought I would share a couple....

- Travel from the last point outside the country of origin may not commence prior to 10 days after departure of the first international sector.

I read this to mean that the clock starts ticking on the flight in which you leave the country of origin, and you can't reenter until 10 days later. Something tells me that if you are a day off, though, you will push it through.

- Travel between Canada and the US is *not* International travel.

- Segments changed to 4 for every continent but NA, which is still 6.

- No more than 2 sectors between Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Funchal (?), Portugal, Romania, Russia, Tunisia, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, and the Middle East.

So you could do lon-dxb-lon-ist-lon, but not lon-mos-lon-mos-lon.

- Additional flight segment charges:
First - 550usd, 750aud, 350gbp, 4300hkd, 450eur
Biz - 400usd, 500aud, 200gbp, 3200hkd, 300eur
Economy - 150usd, 200aud, 75gbp, 1200hkd, 100eur

I will assume that the charges are assessed in the currency of the country of origin. Not in the ticketing country.

- Additional segments can only be purchased in the class of service of the rtw, or in a lower class. Can't buy a biz rtw, and buy extra segments in 1st.

- 2 Intercontinental departures and arrivals in:
North America, if one is a transfer
Asia, if one is a transfer *or* on one flight number to the SWP
Europe, if going to Africa, but not Nambia, South Africa, Zambia, or Zimbabwe.

The Asia one is huuuuuuge in my opinion, because it allows CX to be flown to Australia from Europe, and it allows someone to fly BA to Bangkok and QF or CX to Australia if they want. It also allows someone to go from Australia to the US on Cathay, via Hong Kong. Routing would be Europe-Asia-SWP-NA via HKG.

- One transcontinental allowed in the US.
From: BAL, BOS, FLL, BDL, MIA, EWR, NYC, ORL, PHL, SJU, YYZ, DCA
To: LAS, LAX, OAK, PDX, SAN, SFO, SJC, YVR

Phoenix is omitted. As is Seattle. (woo hoo!)

Looks like even though they raised prices, they made the trip a bit easier to navigate.

Happy Flying...