Originally Posted by jbalmuth

Many thanks for this BrewerSEA!

The difference between "one year from the date on which transportation commences at the point of origin designated on the original ticket" and the date of issuance is about 10 months in our situation.

This was such a huge problem that we cancelled the AA ticket this afternoon and rebooked the exact same itinerary (same flights on the same airlines) with EK doing the ticketing (and they confirmed and documented the "one year from date on which transportation commences" ticket validity issue). Before doing so I hadn't realized that we were also going to save a few hundred USD in the rebooking ^ (primarily due to AA's YQ/YR).

I wish that we could have stuck with AA, but we felt that we couldn't run the risk of meeting up with CS agents whose misunderstanding of the fare policy was as firm as the telephone agent I spoke with last night.