Ah, OK. I raised a similar point in the rules thread a fair while back noting not recalculating after the first segment is flown is (likewise) implicit not explicit. Then again, the rules don't say they won't recalculate if it's a Friday and Jim is ill, i.e. it seems fair to argue that for a recalculation to be allowed it must be explicitly so rather than fail to say it's disallowed. TBH what's most interesting is what happens in practice. Hopefully I won't learn that the hard way.

I'm waiting on CX to update segments 3-5 on a newly ticketed DONEx. Having had days of waiting for a payment link and for the rtw team to respond, with the helpdesk mangling bookings they touched, it seemed best to just pay for an untouched booking out of the oneworld site that had routing I wanted (but wrong dates) minus the fact some ideally transit points are ticketed as stopovers. I'm trying to change my segments 3-5 as they need to be soon after segment 1 so it's likely now or never. Prices haven't gone up yet mind.

BTW what's the deal with date changes with CX. You just call, tell them the info, they put that in a case for the back office and then you wait 1-4 days for it to hopefully happen? Far from ideal if you're chasing slim inventory.