I've searched but found very little relevant to my situation and I wonder if someone may be able to give some advice.

I'm trying to get a paper ticket issued (a first issuance, not a re-route) by the AA GSA in Pakistan. The AA rtw helpdesk have set everything up fine and it's been priced and validated such that the GSA is happy to ticket but when processing the record an error comes up in their system along the lines of the itin being too long to print on ATB stock. It's a 20 segment itin.

Does anyone know of a limitation GSAs may have with issuing long itins? Or tricks they might try to work around it? Currently they have a message queued to Dublin for advice on a work-around. The GSA here are very flexible and help as much as they can but they have very limited experience of xONEx fares (last one was an e-ticket a year ago).

One obvious fallback is to amend the itin so it is shorter but I'd like to avoid that - partly as the current price is pre price hikes but I may have to just bite the bullet on that. Another option I'm keen to avoid is going back to BA or Cathay here to ticket as they have been clueless. I only recently worked out that there is an AA GSA here.

I may try and convince the RTW helpdesk to pull 4 segments (I can retain a valid route with that) but not amend the fare (i.e. I overpay the taxes). The aim then being to re-issue a week later in the US with the 4 extra segments put back in.

A cheeky thought was to contact a savvy GSA in another territory - e.g. EMECO - but it feels very odd doing so without having ever used them before. I was surprised that there was no AA helpline the agent could use to gain assistance - all support seems to be with messages through the system.

I only have one half working-day and one working day before I'm due to fly .