Originally Posted by
slhu82
Oneworld website mentions 12 months since your first depart date. Representative mentions 12 months since issue date. Anyone has idea?
Representative is wrong.
Originally Posted by
ironmanjt
That said, almost all tickets are valid for one year from DATE OF ISSUE so that's independent of the fare rule. I wouldn't be expecting to use things more than 12 month past issue.
Almost all tickets except RTW tickets.
I've book dozens of AONEn tickets around 9-10 months prior to first departure date with dummy dates for many of the segments and then updated the dummy segments when the dates I wanted were available to be booked. I almost always commenced my trips in the late fall and end them in the fall of the following year resulting in 21 months, plus or minus, between the issue date and the date of the final flight segment for each of the AONEn tickets. On quite a few of those tickets I have routinely traveled over 330-360 day period from start of the first flight segment to the start of the last flight segment.
FWIW, I booked most of my RTW tickets with AA RTW desk, and few with BA, and one with JL many years ago.
slhu82, you indicate you booked this through QF. It doesn't sound like they know the rules which could be problematic unless you get an agent that knows the rules when you go to make your changes.