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guv1976
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Unless there has been a very recent change not yet reported here on FT, there is no charge to change routings on an award ticket, as long as only oneworld carriers are used on the original and all subsequent routings. In addition, there is no charge for merely dropping segments, as long as the country of origin does not change, and the award's beginning and ending zones remain the same.
So assuming that all of the proposed routings are valid, there should be no problem changing the award's destination without a service charge by merely dropping on or more segments from the new routing.
Understand what you are saying but they do have the right to charge the fee based on the following statement:
For awards involving travel on other airlines, origin or destination changes or changes to the airline(s) in the itinerary will incur a change fee of $150, even when retaining the same award type
Don't know what the wording was before, but this is what it is now.
Not every exception to the award change fees is published on aa.com. There are internal AA memoranda that have been detailed on the TB website by
JonNYC which make clear that there is no charge for these types of changes.