Originally Posted by
dvs7310
In irrops an airline will take over a ticket but generally no, you have to stick with your ticketing airline. Travel agents can't take over an airline issued ticket either.
Thanks. I suspected as much.
<snip>
In your case, AA is much easier to deal with on these tickets than CX, no reason to try getting someone else to take it over.
100%, I worked hard to have AA ticket precisely because their rtw desk is generally so much better than elsewhere. I can't shop around, but if I could have then it would purely have been if it was the only way to avoid a ~$4k base fare increase charge when re-routing the last 3 segments of my 14 segment rtw to 5 similar (and legit) segments. I'll likely have direct experience of how AA are about it come end come end of May.