I'm phoning AA in Japan later today to arrange pickup of a DONE4 at NRT in 10 days' time. I hope they can send me a credit card authorization form that I can fax back (with appropriate pictures) so I don't have to wait until I'm at NRT to pay for the bloomin' thing.

I made the res with 16 segments (and will add more later) so as to allow e-ticketing (promised by the AA RTW desk) and have no LHR pass-throughs. Itinerary is NRT-LAX//YVR-JFK//SEA-DFW-ANC-DFW-SEA-ORD-FCO-MAD-JNB-MRU-JNB-HKG-SIN-xHKG-CTS. I'll add in TLV when I do a reissue, and may reconsider FCO-MAD while I'm at it; maybe I'll transit through LHR one way in order to see if NNCW makes it to the TLV planes.

Total taxes/surcharges came to USD476, or 7.8% of the base ticket. Better than BA and that's fer sure.