Originally Posted by
pandaperth
As for your 2014 itinerary - after the flying the first flight you can make routing changes; you will have to pay the USD125 change fee but not the fare increase.
Sure, but since the first flight is JNB-HKG, it doesn't help. (The only way to switch JNB-HKG-SYD-LAX to JNB-SYD-HKG-DFW would be before taking JNB-HKG, which means paying the fare increase.)