Hello everyone! I'm trying to figure out a few things in the rules for a LONE5 ticket exAKL. First, do land segments count against your total of 20 and your limit within a continent? This would make no sense, and I've seen a few routings posted which wouldn't seem to be valid if this were the case, but AA's own Trip Planner keeps giving me an error message saying I'm over my segment limit. That, and the rules have some gibberish in them about land segments still counting toward your total number of continents, whatever that means. What is the reality here?

Also, I'm a US citizen but the fares from NZ seem good enough to fly halfway around the world to start my RTW trip. (And I just can't wait until the end to get to NZ!!) But I noticed that American has something in the rules that seems to mark up the ticket to a higher price if paid for in the US, the currency conversion fare check, or something like that... do I need to pay for the ticket after I arrive in NZ, or buy the ticket through a NZ travel agency to get the NZ price. Anybody know?

I apologize if these questions have been answered before... I've read quite a bit here, but haven't seen these addressed directly. Thanks so much for your assistance...