Originally Posted by virtualtroy
Nothing to do with it. Like Viajero I too was told by AA that seats must be booked under the operating airline designator when travelling on RTWs.
There's no reference to this anywhere in the rules and yet another example of AA talking a**e.
Does anyone have details for where the OW executive office is based? It's high time this was raised with them.
I wouldn't raise this up with Oneworld. It may very well become fact.
Funny... I've issued OWE RTWs through AA, and flights between SYD-LAX on QF metal booked on AA flight number and similarly with CX flights to the USA.
I've also booked BA flights using IB flight numbers.
The rate desk will price accordingly... oneworld flight number operated by oneworld aircraft. No problem there. I think the problem lies with the RTW res agent doing the booking. They might be doing it just to avoid making errors, ie booking a Oneworld flight number when the flight is NOT operated by a Oneworld member. Then who can they blame? Certainly not themselves.
Like I said before... book through a travel agent... you shouldn't have any problems there. I didn't.