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.
Does the requirement of using a BA marketed flight from TC2 to TC1/3, i.e. from Africa/Europe to N/S America or Asia/Oceania apply after the 1st flight has been flown?
If a travel agent did the original ticketing and the first flight is already flown, would one contact the issuing airline (Sri Lankan in your case) for changes or just contact the OW airline that one intended to use for the next flight segment?
Lastly, do the rules as of the ticketing date apply or the rules of the date that the fare was filed? Some changes are now valid which were not valid even 1 year ago.