My point is that regardless of whether local service fees are being charged, it was not codified in the RTW fare rules. Now they are. Just a license to add more fees to processing RTW tickets.

My main concern with the change is that several OW hub cities, LON, NYC, TYO, WAS & BUA have more than 1 airport. Usually the long-haul intl flights use 1 airport and domestic flights use another airport in the same city. If you fly into Argentina and want to go to any other city in that country, you must waste 2 segments. For example, JFK-EZE//AEP-IGR-AEP//EZE-Europe. Same city, different airport. You have used 4 segments in South America, 2 for the surface segments between EZE & AEP plus the actual flight AEP-IGR-AEP.