Originally Posted by ReelChief
I don't know the answer to your question but it is experiences like these that make me wonder about the strategy (that some advocate) of ticketing a very simple itinerary at the outset and then adding the complications later.
In my case the complications/re-issue was going to happen anyway. A few years ago I stopped knowing ahead of time what I was going to do for all 20 segments, and always re-issue once or twice.
And I'm convinced that issuing 20 segments and later dropping some of them results in a net loss. In some cases it's in the rules - no refund if you buy an extra segment and then cancel it, for instance. That may also be true for taxes/fees/surcharges for dropped segments; if it's not explicit in the rules, at least it's seemed that the reissuer often can't figure what's been paid, and credits nothing. Thus my personal "start simple" plan these days.