The RTW desk can set up the ticket to be issued anywhere in the world. However, if you go ahead an actually have them issue the ticket, you'll be charged the US price.

You ask them to price it for issue in X, then go to the AA sale rep (or other travel agent using Sabre) in X and have them take over the booking and issue it.


If you use the online tool, it assumes you are where you are starting the trip from. Any manual intervention by an airline after that also assumes you are in that location. I've had ex-Japan tickets issued by both QF and CX. For the QF one, QF Tokyo had problems charging the card and asked QF Sydney to contact me. Once it was all sorted out, I was charged the ex-Japan price, despite QF knowing I wasn't in Japan (and according to the fare rules, should have been charged the ex-Australia price).
For the CX issued ticket, I had to get it rerouted and email CX Tokyo who had issued the ticket. It went through a refare to check for price/tax changes. They didn't try to increase the price to match the ex-AU price.