Originally Posted by headinclouds
During my last reissue (19 segments) about 18 months ago, the AA agent did want to try that trick to avoid the handwritten ticket. She spent about 20 minutes conferring with many desks, but the upshot is that you can't do that.
OTOH an AAgent at ONT did just that for me. It ended up fitting the box and the tickets printed, but no one could make sense of her results and I subsequently got dinged for taxes I probably paid at two AA stations.
Not that they walk on water, but Cathay seems to know how to run an airline in many ways - their answer to the calc line ex CMB was to print it on plain paper, run 20 reduced-size copies, trim each one to the size of the box, and glue them to the coupons.