This is certainly getting to be a pain, and a littel stressful. We have ot ticket with AA for our DONE4 by June1, for an early July depature from CMB. I am thinking that the saving are not really worth the stress! The flights back from CMB to Australia are also very cheap, which was another reason for taking the CMB option (we are flying from ICN via HKG to CMB, doing the DONE, then leaving from CMB to MEL) This advantage is gone with a NRT departure, so I am wondering what to do about this.....perhaps fly from ICN-NRT on a cheap r/t ticket, and then book a cheap o/w with QF ICN via NRT to MEL? Are there cheap I or D class o/w tickets from TPE to MEL with CX still?