Originally Posted by
sony2012
thank you for the AA number, if I don't hear anything positive from Qantas twitter team i will try my luck with AA.
Regarding the routing, yes even after adding an independent segment, I would still be under 16 segments plus less than 4 in intra-asia as well including the surface segment. I am only using HND in all of my flights through tokyo but i am not landing there, only departing after surface segment. I will be clear on the airport code next time. I have been studying these rules quite some time but still have questions, especially after calling qantas and being told some random new restrictions I was not aware of.
Dealing with QF on this(or AA if you get that far), no need to keep calling it an 'independent segment' and that may be confusing them. Just say you want to add a flight xxx-yyy on (date). That's a much more straightforward approach. Calling it an independent segment may have confused the agent into thinking you wanted it as an add-on or side trip on a separate ticket.