Originally Posted by
zoombee
To back this up: I've experienced this and it's important as this one time bump is something like 200 USD IIRC, a fair amount if flying 1 x QR flight but modest if spread across 4+ QR segments. So the "QR has expensive YQ" line I understood before which led me to avoiding QR turned out to be inaccurate when maxing QR on a DONEx. That suits me well as I credit to AA.
This seems correct to me. I did not remember the @ amount for QR but $200 seems about right. Had a DONE4 , xTYO , AA RTW desk issued , ASIA-NA-EUR-SWP. Total YQ of @ $650 with 6 QR segments. Had it reissued 3 times and changed cities. Looked at carrier YQ (non QR) and it did appear QR YQ was about $200 of total. My segments were 1 (AA) 2 (JL) 3 (AS) 4 (MH) 6 (QR)