Originally Posted by
danger
Does this mean you can essentially plan a oneworld Explorer to finish about 23 months out from booking? That is, if I was to book today for the first flight in 330 days and then the last flight to be one year from then?
Yes
Just book the first flight, leave the rest open-dated
and firm up the flights that are "first international flight and all preceding flights" prior to departure (or seven days prior if starting from TC1)
as per rule 3a
(Having just purchased ex-KRT DONE4s, we are now looking at the next one - starting in September 2013 but wanting it to run through to April 2014 - weighing up whether to have dummy dates for most of the segments, or have open dates)
AND if booking in a premium cabin the cancellation fee is just 5% (of en ex-KRT DONE4 that is about $150!)
A possible caveat has just occurred to me:
With the demise of paper tickets, it might now be the case that airlines cannot issue tickets with open-dated segments
If that is the case I'm sure someone will soon point it out to us