Originally Posted by
henry999
This could be big. It's not too many years ago that the general understanding here was that any airline involved on an xONEx itinerary could write the ticket -- although some, e.g., AA, didn't want to bother with it unless there was a trans-oceanic segment on their metal (but I vaguely remember anecdotes in this forum about people getting trips ticketed by carriers who weren't even involved at all!).
Yes, although just for clarity, some airlines insisted that there be an overwater flight
marketed by them (that is, with their flight number, regardless of which carrier operated it [whose metal]).
Originally Posted by
henry999
If it's not an AA initiative policy change but rather something imposed upon the AA RTW desk by OW, then it raises a couple of questions. (1) Is this something that OW wants to enforce (for whatever reason) only on AA, or (2) is it something that will sooner or later apply to all OW carriers in their writing of xONEx tix? That could be a conscious strategy to either force some OW members to up their game or alternatively to make the xONEx (and perhaps the GlobalX too but I don't know anything about that one) much less attractive to pax.
Indeed, but I wouldn't put
too much stock in what a AA ATW agent says about these things, as they don't necessarily know what they're talking about. Also, AA has significant influence in OneWorld, so there's no chance that OW would institute such a policy if AA didn't want them to.