Originally Posted by ifette

I'm honestly sad that this was ever posted. It was the gift that kept on giving and now it's gone. I had booked 3 of these for myself and 4 for family / friends, all AONE5 ex-SEZ. Was hoping to book another in a month for use in November '2019 but now that's gone, sigh.

A few points on this for people wondering. The first change of tariff conference (TC2 to TC1/3, i.e. from Africa/Europe to N/S America or Asia/Oceania) has to be a BA flight number. You could fly BA or QR to LHR and then fly a BA-coded flight to N. America or Asia and this would price out. Personally, I plated most of my tickets on Sri Lankan as it had the lowest YQ's that way, but I do have one plated on American.

As for making changes, if you booked it with an agent using SABRE, it's really easy to change and re-issue. The normal WFR commands work if you just tack ‡RW on the end. Will automatically re-calculate the taxes and YQ's, change fee is either 0 or 125. I've re-issued one of my tickets 10 times already.