Originally Posted by Full Score

I am four legs into a 16 segment AONE4 (CPT-JNB-LHR-DXB-LHR). My next legs should have been LHR-AMS-LHR-MIA-TPA, but a life-and-death family emergency in Tampa forced me at 10 hours notice to buy a separate DIRECT ticket LGW-TPA - no time, nor availability to change the LHR-MIA sector, and LGW instead of LHR would not have been allowed as it would have taken me over the 16 segment limit.

I assumed that I would be able to simply cancel in advance the 4 segments LHR-AMS-LHR-MIA-TPA by paying the change fee. The ticket was issued by BA. They responded that, because I wanted to cancel the UK-US sector, it would void the entire ticket and that I would have to pay the First/Business class fares for all the future segments (TPA-MIA-SAN-ORD-HKG-HND-HKG-JNB-CPT). Had it been simply flights within one continent, no problem. The only solution: to return TPA-LGW and pick up the RTW once again.

Are BA being accurate? Is it not possible to cancel flights between continents on a RTW by paying the change fee?