Thanks, headinclouds. I'd most likely be staying in midtown and so the Lex Ave office should be more convenient

Sorry for going round in circles - but for comparison sake, how is the AA ATO in LHR T3?

Just realised that my parents (hence mid town) will be with me for the entire USA part of my trip so it wouldn't be nice to drag them into an airline office with me (but then again might offer to pay the US$125 ..... ) when all they want to do is check out NYC.

I'll be alone in Europe and getting into LHR at about 1430 from BCN and figured I got a whole day to spare to head over to T3 to deal with the reissue. I'm pretty sure my etix will turn back into paper tix at the LHR stage of my trip as there are still lots of segments left including surface ones. (NA is happening after Europe)

So - what's the AA ATO in LHR like in reissuing ONEs, and dealing with handwritten tickets? I've heard pretty negative things about ATOs as these things can be labour intensive and I'm basically going to tie up one AAgent for hours (and probably cause the ATO to partially close shop?). Hopefully it wouldn't take more than a day if I've got the ATW desk and the rates desk to prep the record and triple check carefully prior to arrival?

I leave for LAX 3 days later - that flight is on AA, and also JFK-SYD booked on the AA7366 codeshare, and so they ought to be quite happy to help?

The advantage of a LHR reissue would also mean I have less margin of error as some of the flights I'm hoping to be reticketed on happens immediately after NYC.