Originally Posted by
BrewerSEA
This is a government regulation. Tickets originating in the Philippines must be issued in the Philippines. There is supposedly an exception for e-tickets but carriers enforce the rule differently. AA, for example, requires that their contracted third-party CTO in Manila (Airesources) issue such tickets.
Thanks for the explanation; I figured it had to be something like that.
Is there some similar regulation that keeps AA from code-sharing on the JL/CX flights, or is that purely a business decision on AA's part?