Originally Posted by
WearyBizTrvlr
As Viajero mentioned in his reply, I was able to do just this, and if memory serves so have others been able to (Gardyloo?). I set up the 16-segment ex-NRT AONE4 using the AA RTW desk, then called AA in Tokyo who took my credit card number and issued the ticket a few minutes later. Completely painless.
I don't know about AA, but with CX in Tokyo you can book 20-segment paper tickets as painlessly. They will send the tickets to NRT CX desk and you can walk away to your next flight in a couple of minutes. I got my tickets issued after dealing with them only by e-mail (the first contact made by fax).
Well, our tickets are 16-segment DONE3 but paper tickets anyway because interline open HKG-SGN segment.