Pegasus, I will drop it with this, but I assure you that they are capable of making a mistake like this. I had an RTW agent that couldn't even read a tariffs code to me. hell, I can read one if you just give me the letters and numbers. I have 2 agents that are very good that I ask for by name, otherwise it is hit and miss. It took 3 weeks to ticket a reasonably simple itinerary, which was finally ticketed the day before I left. Get a printout of the star rules, because no matter what the agent says, it means nothing in the end. I seeeeeriously doubt that AA drops the transcon rule without dropping down to 4 n/a segments. Why would they when Australia just put the rule *into* effect?