A few months ago something like "couldn't issue xONEx e-ticket because (route included)..." was mentioned here. Are there still segments that can't be included in an e-ticket?

At last reissue, AA gave me one of those. I still prefer the paper kind, but even getting to that step took the agent at ONT two hours. Good thing AA has essentially no ops there on Saturday afternoon. In any case I wasn't about to send her into tears by saying "Miss, could you please issue this as a paper ticket?"

To AA's credit, it was a complicated reroute - the original ticket said CMB-HKG-LAX-LHR-HKG-CMB, I had flown to LAX, and was adding LAX-SJO-LAX - and the original was Cathay paper. (Cathay won't reissue at LAX.)

So the AAgent, finally social again after her long ordeal, smiled and said "now that your tickets are electronic we won't have to go through this again." But my next re-issue will involve adding a continent and a bunch of LAN segments. Will that necessitate paper and/or agony?