Originally Posted by Viajero
I take it that merely buying the ticket before 1.1.05 would be no insurance against these rule changes? To beat these 'rumblings' one would have to do the actual flying during 2004, right?
If you've been issued a ticket in 2004 and they do change the rules for 2005, I don't see how they could take your ticket away. At that point, you'd have a ticket and paid for it. Making changes to your itinerary under hypothetic new rules could be trickier though. I wasn't around when the 20-segment rule was imposed, so I don't know how that was handled. It seems difficult enough even now to convince the airlines of the rules, and with multiple rule sets applying to RTW depending on when they were bought could really screw things up.