<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Wasabi Tofu:
A few days ago, I purchased 26 segments Oneworld Explorer Circle Trip at CX city ticket office of TYO.
It consits of hand-written flight coupons and computer printed coupons as follows.
segment 1-8 -> hand-written
segment 9 -> printed, indicating flight coupon 2 of 15
...
segment 21 -> printed, indicating flight coupon 14 of 15
segment 22-26 -> hand-written
These coupon numbering says whole story.
Furthermore, some taxs and airport service charges are printed on separate papers, and attached on reverse sides of flight coupons.
Anyway, it took looong time.
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Let me guess what they did...
They issued it as a 15 segment ticket in a "condensed" format.
Coupon 1 of 15 says "From: segment 1 to To: segment 8"
and Coupon 15 of 15 says "From: segment 22 to To: segment 26"
And when they issued the handwritten ticket for segments 1 to 8, they issued it "in exchange for (ticket number of coupon 1 of 15)"
and for segments 22-26, "issued in exchange for(ticket number of coupon 15 of 15)".
But this makes me wonder... Couldn't they have issued seperate printed tickets (on seperate ticket records) for the tickets they have handwritten? (in exchange for the coupons you mentioned?)
Anyways, it is just a guess of what CX in TYO did.