A happy enough ending to my RTW problem. BA reissued my ticket (for free) so that it now started: NBO - JNB - LHR - NRT all on BA and then on to the rest of my Asia, SWP, Nth Am and Europe sectors. It is now an illegal itinerary, but has the notation that the reissue was authorized by BA Kenya.

So I flew BA to London in first (my first true first class flight in memory, and it was a VERY nice experience) and then I abandoned the RTW for now to go home on American Airlines using a remarkably cheap, last minute, LHR - ORD - TPA round trip ticket upgraded to Business with VIP's.

I actually reached Tampa almost 3 hours earlier than my original flight schedule. And the 17 unchanged RTW segments have been rebooked as I originally had them, so a happy ending all around.

Now I set the return on the new American Airlines ticket for Feb 23, which would have me in London on Feb 24, on which date I can use the BA LHR - NRT coupon of the RTW ticket to get me to NRT on Feb 25, then continue on to HKG and beyond as originally scheduled.

But that is an awfully long way to Hong Kong from Tampa, and I'm tempted to buy a new ticket to get me directly to NRT and join the RTW with the NRT - HKG segment, and cancel the LHR - NRT segment all together.

Could I have them CX just pull my exisiting NRT - HKG coupon and have the skipped LHR - NRT coupon reissued to somewhere else when and if I next need to have the ticket reissued? Or are CX likely to insist on an immediate reissue ($75 and lots of waiting)?